Frido Kuijper is a senior research scientist at TNO in the Netherlands. With a background in computer science he has been working in the field of military modelling and simulation for over thirty years. His research team has a focus on the modelling of military mission and training areas so that detailed and up-to-date virtual environments are made available to simulation applications. He is the program lead for a research program that sees to extend the knowledge on virtual mission environments that comply with the complexity and dynamics of current and future military conflicts.