Using VSIL eases the design process by consolidating simulation tools currently in use. It also simplifies collaboration for multi-designer input and analysis. Use of VSIL helps to ensure maintainability of systems by making it easier to reuse existing, tested subsystems in new designs.

Using VSIL users can:

• Reduce the time, cost and resources needed for developing a new system
• Design and work with virtual models
• Enhance vehicle performance and soldier safety
• Reduce cost and improve efficiency in the hardware design process
• Enable tradeoff analysis for cost and performance evaluation early in the design process
• Reduce demand for costly prototypes, resulting in lower non-recoverable costs

VSIL supports analysis, allocation and tradeoff evaluation for:

• Improved soldier survivability/protection
• Life cycle management
• Vetronics (Data Control and Data Distribution, Computing and Knowledge Resources, Controls and Displays, Power Management and Distribution)
• Intelligent Agents (human/machine)
• Workload Allocation (human/machine)
• Physical Allocation (power, weight, volume, thermal, and other environmental metrics)
• Planning and Preparation
• Logistic planning