Tactical Support Center
Abstract
TacMobile is the Ground Station that brings Enterprise Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) to the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF) community. TacMobile is a long-running, multi-year acquisition program that provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) for Navy's MPRF. From within Tactical Operations Centers (TOC) at well-supported airfields, TacMobile provides theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) commanders a common tactical picture while providing pre-flight and post-flight support to manned and unmanned MPRF aircraft. From within Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (MTOC), TacMobile supports manned MPRF aircraft at the tactical edge of operations. TacMobile Fly-Away Kits (FAK) support manned MPRF aircraft in short-duration expeditionary settings. Services provided include analysis and correlation of diverse sensor information; data management support; command decision aids; rapid data communication; mission planning, evaluation and reach-back dissemination of surveillance data and threat alerts to operational users ashore and afloat, and to the Maritime Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Environment. The TacMobile program uses an evolutionary development strategy consisting of Capability Packages to meet new and emergent Fleet requirements, while retaining current capabilities. These capability packages consist of a three phase approach: Capability Package One (CP-1) which addresses SECRET domain only (planned fielding in FY25); Capability Package Two (CP-2) meets the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in FY28); and Capability Package Three (CP-3) will meet full Capability Production Document (CPD) requirements. These Capability Packages are planned and resourced to support the MPRF Family of Systems aircraft: P-8A Poseidon aircraft modernization and upgrades; and Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS). In FY 2025, TacMobile begins shifting from its current TacMobile Inc 2.1 baseline to a modernized and modular hardware and software architecture (Inc. 3.0 baseline), leveraging Model Based Systems Engineering, and increased cloud, virtualization, micro-services, and container based technology. Transition of development environments, personnel, and processes to a cloud-based Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) approach to meet fleet Size Weight and Power (SWaP) and cyber resiliency requirements. Conduct Increment 3 Critical Design Review (CDR) and finalize documentation. Procurement of hardware to support development of the engineering development model (EDM) to meet fleet requirements to support Higher Than Secret (HTS) operations with expeditionary HTS shelters. Initiate Interim Authority To Test (IATT) preparation for HTS Lab and System accreditation. Commence EDM integration. Incorporate a program Test Lead and integrate Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COTF) involvement for Test and Evaluation (T&E) oversight of Developmental Test activities. Commence transition of Mission Planning Software from legacy End-Of-Life Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) to Next-Generation Open Mission Systems (NOMS) architecture. NAVAIR is designing and developing an interim P-8A Increment 3 ground station (PGS) that leverages TacMobile Inc 2.1 communications infrastructure at fixed site Tactical Operations Centers (TOC). This PGS instantiation meets a subset of the TacMobile requirements. TacMobile Inc 3 leverages the PGS architecture with the focus on increased mobility (Size, Weight, Power and Cooling (SWaP-C)) for the Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (MTOC) to meet the complete TacMobile Inc 3 requirements. The TacMobile Inc 3 system will be aligned to support P-8A Inc 3 Block 2 ECP 6 and ECP 7 as well as Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) capabilities, adding an additional security enclave, while offsetting the size/weight/power/cooling (SWaP-C) requirements to support worldwide expeditionary Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF) Aircraft operations. The TacMobile Increment 3 integration continues to ensure interoperability with emerging MPRF Aircraft and Sensors, streamline Pre-Flight Insertion Data (PID) processing, and facilitate the MPRF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare data Processing - Exploitation - Dissemination (PED) capabilities within the TacMobile systems. The PGS partial solution will be recapitalized where feasible and incorporated into the full TacMobile Increment 3 design solution. Leveraging PGS will require some TacMobile redesign to achieve a smaller, lightweight, scalable Network-centric Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) configuration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0486_0604231N_5_1319_PB_2025
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