Collaborative engineering and development are paramount to supporting new warfighter-driven programs like Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA) and Simulation Based Design (SBD). AFRL's Collaborative Enterprise Environment (CEE) enhances Directorate research and development, exploration, evaluation, planning, and transition of technologies by enabling collaboration and technology integration. However, there are a large number of legacy systems and applications that are neither inherently collaborative nor easily reusable within a colIaborative environment. Many algorithms and models have been implemented under a variety of DoD programs using Khoros, a powerful software development and visual programming environment, that facilitates the integra-tion of legacy code as well as the development of new solutions. The proposed effort will extend Khoros to operate within the CEE, seamlessly supporting collaborative development and code reuse. These extensions will use Khoros' flexible code generation system and visual workspace compiler, CORBA and Java. The resulting system is calIed Visual Interactive Programming for Enterprise Research (VIPER). VIPER will enable the Khoros visual programming environment and software development tools to fully operate within the multi-platform CEE and enable existing legacy systems to be integrated with this environment. VIPER also enables CEE to capitalize on Khoros' extensive user base in both government and private sectors.
Keywords: COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTCEE KHOROS VISUAL PROGRAMMING CANTATA JAVA COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE