This Defence Standard specifies that the DMSP shall be used as a guide for the selection of standards and as such the DMSP will assist the MOD and the supporting simulation industry to efficiently achieve the goals of the MOD Simulation Strategy and appropriate governance as set by the DTEC Programme. It will be included within the MOD's Acquisition Operating Framework (AOF). 

Achievement of this strategy will require interoperability of simulations and compatibility of the representation of the synthetic environments. The broad adoption of distributed simulation standards and representation standards will be necessary to achieve this aim.

Compliance with specified simulation engineering and simulation management standards will be a necessity for the effective supply and exchange of technology, tools and products. This is required if Defence is to address its strategic goals as set out by the DTEC Capability Programme. 

As a general rule, standards chosen for the DMSP will ultimately be open; created and supported by the simulation community; proprietary standards are to be avoided wherever possible. Therefore it follows that if Industry is not content with a standard chosen for reasons relating to its content or operation, they have the ability to get involved with the M&S standards community and modify that standard.