IEEE has officially published the new version of HLA, code name “HLA Evolved”, formally named IEEE1516-2010 on 18 August. The new version contains a large number of new features and improvements.

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A wide range of new features

New features include:

• More dynamic information models
• More support for incrementally growing federations
• More support for deploying federations in real-life, unreliable environments
• More support for mixing simulations from different domains
• More support for large and scalable federations
• More net-centric and Web Services support
• More support for the latest development and deployment technologies

A detailed description of the new features can be found in the paper ”HLA Evolved – A Summary of Major Technical Improvements”, 08F-SIW-064, which can be downloaded here.

Getting access to the standards

The full standard (three PDFs) can be purchased from the IEEE shop. You may find them as follows:

1. Go to http://shop.ieee.org
2. Search (in the box to the right) for 1516-2010 

APIs, XML Schemas and FOM Modules can be freely downloaded using the following links:

http://standards.ieee.org/downloads/1516/1516.1-2010/

http://standards.ieee.org/downloads/1516/1516.2-2010/