we're really often asked, what is the big thing about interoperability?

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First, it's a word that is super complex for a French person to pronounce.

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but aside from that, when you have successfully achieved speaking that word and saying it

correctly, why is important in there?

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Well, there are a couple of factors.

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And you need to look at the global view of the evolution of these simulation tools that we

use every day.

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We talked about the silos, we talked about the fact that you had either accurate or good

looking in the ancient time of simulation.

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You also had three big silos between live, virtual and constructive simulations that were

requiring different type of tools.

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And these different type of tools had different capabilities in different type of

exercises and had different...

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roles in the ecosystem.

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Some tools were experts at building sensor data model.

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Some others were experts at assessing the ballistic success of an operation.

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And some others were moving a lot of pawns on a map.

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These tools, which all of them had their own specialties, and historically,

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They were not connected together, right?

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So we had to glue them together.

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And these glues were ugly.

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We had to build new glues for new programs and new glues for new projects.

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And it was really painful for the developers.

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Over the years, the community created a way to have the systems to talk to each other.

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A little bit like in the real world between the nations.

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When we go to operations together, we invented new ways to communicate together.

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to have the same ways to understand each other's doctrines, to understand each other's

comms.

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Well, what happened in the real world, this interoperability of systems, we reproduce in

the simulation world, right?

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We have interoperability of simulation systems.

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What it means is that we have these different tools that become federated into a global

world, and this federation, this global world,

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is allowing all the systems to speak the same language even if they don't come from the

same vendor, from the same provider, right?

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So you can have a software created somewhere in Turkey talking super well with a software

developed somewhere in Czech Republic talking super well to a software created in the UK.

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And all these tools, they talk together without having to have the owners of these tools

to agree on something before.

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they all support the same interoperability protocol.

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That's why they're so important, these protocols.

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The words interoperability protocols that we use in simulation are inspired from the real

life, from the real needs of operations when we decide to work together.

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That's simply what it means.

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And nowadays, with the strong push that we see to break the silos, the historical silos

that we had,

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between live, virtual and constructive, this need to communicate and to work together

better is more important than ever.