The SISO Simulation Smackdown is an effort to promote the concepts of modeling and simulation as a discipline at the university undergraduate and graduate levels and to raise the awareness of modeling and simulation down into the K-12 grades. This will be accomplished through a participatory program that will involve students and faculty in "building" an HLA based distributed simulation of a space system.
ForwardSim proudly supports this initiative driven by NASA and will provide software license for the HLA Toolbox and HLA Blockset to participating Universities.