Small Wars Journal

Jon Watkins

BIO

Jon Watkins is the founder and Chief Operating Officer of Dignitas Technologies LLC.  He has 25 years of applied experience related to modeling and simulation applications, with a specific focus on terrain databases, database generation, terrain services, dynamic terrain, and entity-level movement control algorithms.  Mr. Watkins has worked with the modeling and simulation terrain formats and/or services for many Army simulation systems (such as SIMNET, ModSAF/OTB, CCTT, JSIMS/WARSIM, OneSAF, Common Driver Trainer).  Mr. Watkins presently supports a wide range of constructive and virtual programs, including major programs and research efforts related to Synthetic Natural Environments, terrain representations, terrain reasoning, weather/ocean, and simulation and training.

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