Simulation & Digital Twin Infrastructure for Defence: Interoperable Environments for Testing, Training and Doctrine Development
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About this report
The accelerating complexity of military operations across land, air, maritime, space and cyber domains necessitates the development of simulation and digital twin infrastructures capable of supporting realistic testing, training and doctrinal evolution.
As defence systems become more interconnected, software-defined and reliant on emerging technologies such as autonomous systems, counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS), electronic warfare (EW) and high-power electromagnetics (HPM), conventional modelling approaches are no longer sufficient.
Key questions this report answers
- What distinguishes defence modelling & simulation and the digital-twin paradigm for testing, training and doctrine development?
- How do middleware, interoperability, standards and open architectures link simulations and systems across land, air, maritime, space and cyber domains?
- Which European and allied players and technology-stack enablers build synthetic environments and twins?
- What roadmap and constraints shape interoperable simulation infrastructure for autonomous systems, C-UAS, EW and HPM?
Inside this report
- Introduction
- Foundations of Defence Modelling & Simulation (M&S)
- The Digital Twin Paradigm in Defence
- Middleware and Interoperability: Linking Simulations and Systems
- Standards and Open Architectures
- Use Cases: Training, Testing, and Doctrine Development
- Technology Stack: Enablers of Synthetic Environments and Twins
- Industry and Innovation Ecosystem: Key European and Allied Players
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
Methodology & sources
DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; the report reflects them as of its publication date (10 December 2025).
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