Zack Crues


 

 
Dr. Edwin Z. (Zack) Crues has been a pioneer in the space domain within SISO since 2007. He has presented multiple papers and was a leader in the SISO Smackdown/Simulation Exploration Experience from 2007 to 2013. Beginning in 2014, Dr. Crues made substantial contributions as the Editor of the SISO Space Reference Federation Object Model, the first SISO standard for the space domain. He has shared cutting edge knowledge from himself and his space domain colleagues with the SISO community, including insights and design patterns for mixing soft and hard real-time systems with HLA Time Management, as well as approaches for spatial representation in the space domain. Zack has made important contributions to papers about this new SISO standard, in both SISO and IEEE publications. The SISO space modeling and simulation community has greatly benefited from Zach’s technical expertise and leadership.

Aaron Dubois



 

 
Mr. Aaron Dubois was the editor for SISO-STD-001-2015, the Standard for Guidance, Rationale, and Interoperability Modalities for the Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model, Version 2.0. Mr. Dubois has played a key role as editor and has also contributed to SIW papers about the revised standard. Mr. Dubois has networked with current and previous members of SISO groups, building on the heritage and body of knowledge of SISO as well as capturing new ideas for further improvement. Mr. Dubois’ contributions include reviewing, updating, modernizing, and resolving errors in the RPR FOM standard, ensuring it will continue to be a crucial component for national and international interoperability between defense simulations.

Patrice Le Leydour



 

 
Mr. Patrice Le Leydour was the editor for SISO-STD-001.1-2015, the Standard for Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model, Version 2.0. Mr. Le Leydour has played a key role as editor and has also contributed to SIW papers about the revised standard. Mr. Le Leydour has networked with current and previous members of SISO groups, building on the heritage and body of knowledge of SISO as well as capturing new ideas for further improvement. Mr. Le Leydour’s contributions include reviewing, updating, modernizing, and resolving errors in the RPR FOM standard, ensuring it will continue to be a crucial component for national and international interoperability between defense simulations.

René Verhage



 

 
Mr. René Verhage was the editor for SISO-STD-001.1-2015, the Standard for the Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model, Version 2.0. Mr. Verhage has played a key role as editor and has also contributed to SIW papers about the revised standard. Mr. Verhage has networked with current and previous members of SISO groups, building on the heritage and body of knowledge of SISO as well as capturing new ideas for further improvement. Mr. Verhage’s contributions include reviewing, updating, modernizing, and resolving errors in the RPR FOM standard, ensuring it will continue to be a crucial component for national and international interoperability between defense simulations.

Lance Marrou



 

 
SISO-REF-010 contains over 20,000 enumerations and is critical for interoperability of a large range of simulations across the Distributed Interactive Simulation, High Level Architecture, and Test and Training Enabling Architecture spectrum. Mr. Marrou accepted the challenge of establishing the Enumerations Working Group to manage the revision and publication process. He developed the rules for processing the hundreds of change requests that go into each release and the rules to resolve the previously inconsistent categorization of entity types and other enumerations. Mr. Marrou continues to chair the Enumerations Working Group and leads the technical discussions associated with processing change requests and publishing

Graham Shanks



 

Mr. Shanks developed the software tools that are critical to converting this complex SISO product from a manually processed document into a set of XML-based files that are both human readable and machine readable for automated processing by users. Mr. Shanks’ tools span the entire chain of process from the submitted change requests, error and conflict checks, XML database updates, status tracking, and auto-generating Word, PDF, and HTML files for publication. Mr. Shanks has worked to release the tools as open source software so that future generations of SISO members have the means to continue revision and publication of this important simulation resource.

  
   Björn Möller
 

    
Mikael Karlsson 
 

 
Michael O’Connor

 
Paul Gustavson

         
Jean-Louis Igarza

The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) Standards Activity Committee (SAC) recognizes Mr. Jean-Louis Igarza for his dedication to organizing and conducting one-day SISO M&S Seminars at the annual International Training and Education Conference (ITEC) in Europe. ITEC is the key European military training and simulation event that allows industry, military, and academia to collaborate on training and simulation and to learn about M&S Standards developed by SISO members for use by the worldwide M&S community.

Since 2012 and while volunteering to serve on one of the three SISO Committees, Mr. Igarza facilitated the SISO presence in Europe. Today SISO has over 360 members from 18 countries from around the world. Due to his dedication and persistence, information about SISO and SISO M&S Standards is available to the thousands of individuals who participate in ITEC each year. In addition to planning and organizing the one-day seminar, Mr. Igarza also plans for and facilitates meetings for SISO groups involved in the development and support of SISO M&S Standards.

There are many moving parts involved in coordinating amongst multiple organizations to plan for and conduct each seminar and facilitate ad hoc SISO group meetings. In addition to SISO and ITEC, other organizations involved in the coordination include the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG), European Training and Simulation Association (ETSA), National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA), and Clarion Events. In 2014, Mr. Igarza facilitated a Memorandum of Agreement by and between SISO and ETSA to jointly promote training and M&S opportunities worldwide.

Jean-Louis Igarza is a valuable member of the international SISO community and is unreplaceable as a SISO volunteer. Without his dedication to SISO, there would be no SISO presence in Europe today.
 

         
Marcy Stutzman

Ms. Stutzman has been a member and officer of the Standards Activity Committee for four years and in that time has worked tirelessly to establish SAC templates and procedures that expedite the product development process for SISO Groups. She took on the reorganization of the digital library, ensured all published products were posted in the appropriate folders, and when necessary worked with the past chairs to find published products that had not properly posted for community access. Further, she has served as SAC Editor in making final quality edits to SISO products as well as providing advice to SISO groups and SAC members alike. Ms. Stutzman has worked to ensure all SISO committees consider all sides of every decision. Her efforts have helped transform the SAC into an adaptive and effective committee.

         
Dr. James E. Coolahan

Dr. Coolahan has been a member and leader of SISO for over fourteen years, serving in multiple leadership roles including the Systems Lifecycle Forum PRP, the Management of M&S Assets PRP, the Conference Committee, the Executive Committee and the SISO Inc. Board of Directors.  Dr. Coolahan has authored numerous papers and has been awarded multiple SISO SIWzie awards. Dr. Coolahan was one of the organizers of the Live, Virtual, and Constructive Architecture Roadmap special event and was a key contributor to the most recent revision of the SISO Strategic Plan.  Dr. Coolahan’s parallel activities in the National Defense Industrial Association, the National Training and Simulation Association, and the National Modeling and Simulation Coalition continue to contribute to the Modeling and Simulation Community at large and to SISO’s role in the community.

  
  Dr. Louis Hembree