Elsag Datamat is a key player in the Software and IT Services sector in Italy, set up in Rome in 1971. The company is specialized in the development and supply of mission critical projects and solutions with market divisions which operate independently in the following markets:

• Bank Finance & Insurances
• Telecommunication
• Defence Aerospace & Environment
• Public Administration & Healthcare
• Industry & Technologies

Elsag Datamat is currently engaged in several European projects in the field of M&S funded by the European MOD's: in particular:

• EUCLID RTP 11.13 - Realizing The Potential of Synthetics Environments in Europe
• EUCLID 11.21 - SYNFUL (whose aim is giving intelligence to the CGFs)
• EUCLID 11.18 - STRATOS (whose aim is to investigate how the JTLS product can be used for the exigencies of the European MOD's)

In each of these projects the benefits of having a common interoperable format for Federation Scenario and Conceptual Model has revealed a crucial issue, and a need for SEDRIS.