Taking HLA education to the Web

Now that the High Level Architecture (HLA) (DMSO 1998) is a technical reality and DoD M&S programs are moving toward compliance, there´s a growing market for computer scientists and software engineers with HLA experience. There´s also a long term need for continuing research in HLA-related areas. In addition, the simulation community as a whole is growing while the number of universities offering simulation courses and study programs is not. One of the key reasons is that developing new course material is a time-consuming and expensive process for professors whose time is already divided among existing teaching and research responsibilities. The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office´s (DMSO) HLA University Outreach program seeks to bridge this gap with freely available course materials on the HLA. The program is currently moving to make these materials even more accessible by making them Web-based