The Swedish Defence Research Agency, known by the Swedish acronym FOI (Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut), is an assignment-based authority under the Swedish Ministry of Defence whose work includes security policy and weapons development as well as modeling and simulation in the national defence arena. The organization employs over 1300 individuals of whom over 70% are university-educated research scientists.
FOI has utilized FLAMES in a number of research projects such as demonstrating tactical information fusion in ground warfare simulation, creating an analysis and research test-bed, developing a platform for concept studies on collaborating missiles, and designing tools for analysis of complex scenarios on an operative level
FOI representative Johan Pelo delivered a presentation on the role FLAMES plays in the agency's research at the 2003 FLAMES User Group Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. The associated PowerPoint display outlines a number of FLAMES-related projects currently ongoing within the research agency.
In July of 2002, FOI presented a paper that outlines the requirements needed in a simulation framework for Information Fusion research and how Ternion is responding to those needs in the continued development of FLAMES®. This presentation (available here in PDF format) was part of the 5th International Conference on Information Fusion in Annapolis, MD, which was sponsored by the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF).
A year later at the Fusion 2003 Conference in Cairns, Australia, Pontus Hörling of FOI presented a paper that describes the simulation framework requirements for creating an Information Fusion Demonstrator (available here in PDF format). The project, known as "Infofusion demonstrator 03", demonstrates tactical information fusion applied to simple ground warfare scenarios. FOI has taken advantage of FLAMES' open, object-oriented architecture by tightly integrating program modules developed in the Matlab™ problem-solving environment.
