diff --git a/platform/core/bundle.js b/platform/core/bundle.js
index 55879265c7..93b64f5739 100644
--- a/platform/core/bundle.js
+++ b/platform/core/bundle.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ define([
     "./src/objects/DomainObjectProvider",
     "./src/capabilities/CoreCapabilityProvider",
     "./src/models/StaticModelProvider",
+    "./src/models/RootModelProvider",
     "./src/models/ModelAggregator",
     "./src/models/ModelCacheService",
     "./src/models/PersistedModelProvider",
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ define([
     DomainObjectProvider,
     CoreCapabilityProvider,
     StaticModelProvider,
+    RootModelProvider,
     ModelAggregator,
     ModelCacheService,
     PersistedModelProvider,
@@ -150,6 +152,16 @@ define([
                         "$log"
                     ]
                 },
+                {
+                    "provides": "modelService",
+                    "type": "provider",
+                    "implementation": RootModelProvider,
+                    "depends": [
+                        "roots[]",
+                        "$q",
+                        "$log"
+                    ]
+                },
                 {
                     "provides": "modelService",
                     "type": "aggregator",
diff --git a/platform/core/src/models/RootModelProvider.js b/platform/core/src/models/RootModelProvider.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..205d41e66b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platform/core/src/models/RootModelProvider.js
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ * Open MCT, Copyright (c) 2014-2016, United States Government
+ * as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
+ * Administration. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Open MCT is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ * Open MCT includes source code licensed under additional open source
+ * licenses. See the Open Source Licenses file (LICENSES.md) included with
+ * this source code distribution or the Licensing information page available
+ * at runtime from the About dialog for additional information.
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * Module defining RootModelProvider. Created by vwoeltje on 11/7/14.
+ */
+define(
+    ['./StaticModelProvider'],
+    function (StaticModelProvider) {
+
+        /**
+         * Provides the root object (id = "ROOT"), which is the top-level
+         * domain object shown when the application is started, from which all
+         * other domain objects are reached.
+         *
+         * The root model provider works as the static model provider,
+         * except that it aggregates roots[] instead of models[], and
+         * exposes them all as composition of the root object ROOT,
+         * whose model is also provided by this service.
+         *
+         * @memberof platform/core
+         * @constructor
+         * @implements {ModelService}
+         * @param {Array} roots all `roots[]` extensions
+         * @param $q Angular's $q, for promises
+         * @param $log Angular's $log, for logging
+         */
+        function RootModelProvider(roots, $q, $log) {
+            // Pull out identifiers to used as ROOT's
+            var ids = roots.map(function (root) {
+                return root.id;
+            });
+
+            // Assign an initial location to root models
+            roots.forEach(function (root) {
+                if (!root.model) {
+                    root.model = {};
+                }
+                root.model.location = 'ROOT';
+            });
+
+            this.baseProvider = new StaticModelProvider(roots, $q, $log);
+            this.rootModel = {
+                name: "The root object",
+                type: "root",
+                composition: ids
+            };
+        }
+
+        RootModelProvider.prototype.getModels = function (ids) {
+            var rootModel = this.rootModel;
+            return this.baseProvider.getModels(ids).then(function (models) {
+                models.ROOT = rootModel;
+                return models;
+            });
+        };
+
+        return RootModelProvider;
+    }
+);
diff --git a/platform/core/test/models/RootModelProviderSpec.js b/platform/core/test/models/RootModelProviderSpec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7e027c4ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platform/core/test/models/RootModelProviderSpec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ * Open MCT, Copyright (c) 2014-2016, United States Government
+ * as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
+ * Administration. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Open MCT is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ * Open MCT includes source code licensed under additional open source
+ * licenses. See the Open Source Licenses file (LICENSES.md) included with
+ * this source code distribution or the Licensing information page available
+ * at runtime from the About dialog for additional information.
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * RootModelProviderSpec. Created by vwoeltje on 11/6/14.
+ */
+define(
+    ["../../src/models/RootModelProvider"],
+    function (RootModelProvider) {
+
+        describe("The root model provider", function () {
+            var roots = [
+                    {
+                        "id": "a",
+                        "model": {
+                            "name": "Thing A",
+                            "someProperty": "Some Value A"
+                        }
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "id": "b",
+                        "model": {
+                            "name": "Thing B",
+                            "someProperty": "Some Value B"
+                        }
+                    }
+                ],
+                captured,
+                mockLog,
+                mockQ,
+                provider;
+
+            function mockPromise(value) {
+                return {
+                    then: function (callback) {
+                        return mockPromise(callback(value));
+                    }
+                };
+            }
+
+            function capture(value) {
+                captured = value;
+            }
+
+
+            beforeEach(function () {
+                mockQ = { when: mockPromise };
+                mockLog = jasmine.createSpyObj("$log", ["error", "warn", "info", "debug"]);
+                provider = new RootModelProvider(roots, mockQ, mockLog);
+            });
+
+            it("provides models from extension declarations", function () {
+                // Verify that we got the promise as the return value
+                provider.getModels(["a", "b"]).then(capture);
+
+                // Verify that the promise has the desired models
+                expect(captured.a.name).toEqual("Thing A");
+                expect(captured.a.someProperty).toEqual("Some Value A");
+                expect(captured.b.name).toEqual("Thing B");
+                expect(captured.b.someProperty).toEqual("Some Value B");
+            });
+
+            it("provides models with a location", function () {
+                provider.getModels(["a", "b"]).then(capture);
+                expect(captured.a.location).toBe('ROOT');
+                expect(captured.b.location).toBe('ROOT');
+            });
+
+
+            it("does not provide models which are not in extension declarations", function () {
+                provider.getModels(["c"]).then(capture);
+
+                // Verify that the promise has the desired models
+                expect(captured.c).toBeUndefined();
+            });
+
+            it("provides a ROOT object with roots in its composition", function () {
+                provider.getModels(["ROOT"]).then(capture);
+
+                expect(captured.ROOT).toBeDefined();
+                expect(captured.ROOT.composition).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
+            });
+
+        });
+    }
+);