Consolidated Afloat Network Ent Services(CANES)

Abstract

Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES) is the Navy's only Program of Record (POR) to replace existing afloat networks and provide the necessary infrastructure for applications, systems, and services required for the Navy to dominate the Cyber Warfare domain. CANES is the technical and infrastructure consolidation of existing, separately managed afloat networks including Integrated Shipboard Network Systems (ISNS), Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System - Maritime (CENTRIXS-M), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Networks, and Submarine Local Area Network (SubLAN). These legacy afloat network designs are currently End of Life and CANES will replace these unaffordable and obsolete networks. The fundamental goal of CANES is to bring Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), within which current and future iterations of Navy Tactical Network computing and storage capabilities will reside. CANES will provide complete infrastructure inclusive of hardware, software, processing, storage, and end user devices for Unclassified, Coalition, Secret and SCI for all basic network services (email, web, chat, collaboration) to a wide variety of Navy surface combatants, submarines, Maritime Operations Centers, Regional Network Operations and Security Centers (RNOSC) and Aircraft. In addition, hosted applications and systems inclusive of Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Information Operations, Logistics and Business domains require the CANES infrastructure to operate in the tactical environment. Integrating these applications and systems is accomplished through Application Integration (AI), the engineering process used to evaluate and validate compatibility between CANES and the Navy-validated applications, systems and services that will utilize the CANES infrastructure and services. Specific programs, such as Distributed Common Ground System - Navy (DCGS-N), Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M), Naval Tactical Command Support System (NTCSS), and Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS), are dependent on the CANES Common Computing Environment (CCE) to field, host, and sustain their capability because they no longer provide their own hardware. CANES requires that Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) field prior to or concurrently with CANES due to the architectural reliance between the two programs. CANES will develop technical updates on a rolling four year hardware baseline and a two year software baseline to ensure no cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist due to hardware and software obsolescence. CANES is based on the overarching concept of reducing the number of afloat networks and providing enhanced efficiency through a single engineering focus on integrated technical solutions. This will allow for streamlined acquisition, contracting, and test events, and significant lifecycle efficiencies through consolidation of multiple current configuration management baselines, logistics, and training efforts into a unified support structure. Platform Sets define phases of CANES system development efforts and each platform set consists of different ship class design baselines. In FY 2017, CANES RDT&E investment will support additional development for Technical Insertion 2 (TI2) hardware and software baselines including Enterprise Engineering and Certification (E2C) laboratory test efforts. Perform systems engineering efforts to complete functional baselines and updates to technical data packages. Continue Development Testing (DT) in support of submarine baseline development. Additional funds provided in FY 2017 to design and engineer the CANES Tactical Data Cloud capability to be included in future CANES hardware and software baselines The Communications Automation Program - This project is a continuing program that provides for automation and communications upgrades for Fleet tactical users. It includes Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) and High Frequency Internet Protocol/Sub Network Relay. ADNS is the method by which Tactical Navy units transfer Internet Protocol (IP) data to Navy and Department of Defense communities on the Global Information Grid (GIG). ADNS is the gateway to technical Wide Area Network (WAN) afloat for Internet Protocol network operations, supporting information dissemination and external connectivity. ADNS allows services and applications to interconnect to the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) ashore via multiple Radio Frequency (RF) resources and pier connectivity.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0303138N_7_1319_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: N/A Funding: N/A Schedule: Operational commitments for the CANES Force Level Follow-On Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) test platform caused the Force Level DT and Force Level FOT&E test events to be re-phased. Full Deployment has been re-phased to align with program's Full Deployment Decision (FDD), which was updated to accommodate acquisition documentation requirements. Additional funds provided in FY 2017 to design and engineer the CANES Tactical Data Cloud capability to be included in future CANES hardware and software baselines. FDD was achieved in 1QFY16.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Computing
  • Network Protocols
  • Radio Frequency
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Undersea Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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