OKTAL Synthetic Environment (OKTAL-SE) has been involved in the SEDRIS project since February 1999 when the French Department of Defense assigned OKTAL-SE the responsibility to develop an interface between their current data base format used in training simulation (the French Version of SIF) and SEDRIS. OKTAL-SE became a SEDRIS Associate in July 1999. The software implementation of the Interface is now under development based on a mapping document between SIF and SEDRIS.

Since then, OKTAL-SE has extended its knowledge of the SEDRIS project, and is involved in the following projects, research subjects or internal developments.

• OKTAL-SE is in charge of collecting all the needs of the French M&S community in terms of sensors and atmosphere modeling systems, and analyzing whether SEDRIS can respond to these particular needs.

• OKTAL-SE has developed a partnership with Aerospatiale that consists of analyzing their needs of database interoperability and correlation on their different training simulators, and analyzing the SEDRIS response to these kind of problems.

• The mapping between SDM (the OKTAL-SE native data base format) and SEDRIS is currently under study.

• OKTAL-SE is involved in road traffic simulation, and trying to analyze the possibilities of SEDRIS in this field, especially from a topology point of view.