Highly distributed and networked, the next generation of defense vehicle technology creates a particularly challenging integration effort. System integration involves bringing together subsystems, assembling them into the complete vehicle or weapon system, then testing and evaluating all system functionality.

System integration must be highly coordinated and is performed in what are called System Integration Labs (SIL). SILs are risk reduction facilities where software and hardware can be developed, integrated, and tested. They allow for an evaluation of both stand-alone functionality and interoperability, prior to being fielded.

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Intelligent Integration

Intelligent integration is an approach used to implement highly efficient SILs for military development programs. When performing intelligent integration, a pure-software "virtual integration lab" is implemented in parallel with developing a real-time simulation. This approach allows more development activities to be completed in parallel, and thereby reducing the overall cost and time required for system integration.

The ADvantage framework is the only simulation framework designed specifically for intelligent integration. ADvantage provides a seamless migration between low-cost desktop simulation and high-performance real-time simulation, thus optimizing integration efficiency. Read more! in PDF. (1763KB)