Simulating millions talk at NATO workshop

Upcoming talk at NATO MSG-238 Workshop. We will give a talk at the MSG-238 19th Workshop on Commercial Technologies and Games for Use in NATO and Nations, entitled: Simulating millions: scalable pattern-of-life engines for dual-use applications.

📍 Rome | 🗓️ 25 September 2025

Introducing our modular simulation framework

We present our modular simulation framework that enables real-time, high-fidelity behavior modelling of millions of agents across both civilian and military contexts.

Overcoming performance bottlenecks

Built atop commercial game engines (Unity, Unreal Engine, VBS), our memory-oriented architecture overcomes longstanding performance bottlenecks in digital twin and synthetic environment simulations.

• Real-time visualization and animation of 100K+ intelligent agents
• Simulations exceeding 1 million agents in a single environment
• Surpassing any known real-time implementation to date

Smarter agents, richer simulations

Our solution integrates crowd simulation, environmental data, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs) to generate dynamic, doctrine-informed patterns-of-life at the individual agent scale. These agents exhibit believable, autonomous behavior suitable for:

• Defense training
• Urban operations planning
• Information warfare simulation

The platform supports rapid scenario creation, real-time control, and seamless switching between immersive and abstract visualizations.

Technical breakthroughs

In this talk, we will detail the innovations behind our performance, including:

• Memory-first architecture
• Distributed simulation
• Data standards enabling cross-domain integration

We will share lessons learned from civilian deployments (crowd safety, emergency evacuation, transport planning) and defense use cases (battalion-scale training and pattern-of-life simulation). We will also show how LLM integration provides a novel interface between human intent and simulation logic.

Towards M&S-as-a-service

We provide a working example of M&S-as-a-Service using our engine and commercial tools, demonstrating how open standards and COTS components can be harnessed for NATO’s next-generation training and operations platforms.

Our goal: to contribute to a shared roadmap that leverages commercial scalability for strategic advantage.

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