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Project C1: Modeling and Simulation Integration Framework

Dr. James E. Coolahan, the principal investigator for the Modeling and Simulation Integration Framework project, is a Program Manager and the Supervisor of the Modeling and Simulation (MANDS) Group in the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He leads a 25-person group that has applied the High Level Architecture (HLA) for simulation interoperability to various problems, and that performs simulation-aided analyses, as well as verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) of models and simulations.

Dr. Coolahan is also the program manager of a $3+million, 3 year renewable task, sponsored by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), in the areas of VV&A simulation interoperability / composability, and simulation / data standards. Dr. Coolahan has also served as the principal investigator for a $1+ million, 3 year grant sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) that developed an HLA federation to simulate the cycle ergometer exercise protocol used by U.S. astronauts, which incorporated simulations and modeling methods developed by researchers at four institutions.