Networked Communications Capability

Abstract

This program supports the Departments initiatives to Build a Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage, and Build a Resilient Joint Force and Defense Ecosystem. Fielded communications infrastructure for the Department of Defense (DoD) faces a variety of challenges including threats from electromagnetic, cyber, and kinetic sources among others. As more of this infrastructure becomes virtualized in cloud and embedded systems, the ability to rapidly protect and reconstitute this infrastructure is increasingly important, particularly in situations where both commercial and DoD infrastructures are used. The Network Communications Capability Program (NCCP) strives to enable such resilience with a strategy that leverages and develops rapidly reconfigurable and deployable solutions from the physical, to network, to applications layers of a communications stack. Such solutions will leverage software and hardware that are agile in their ability to be reconfigured and managed in contested environments both at the tactical edge and in the enterprise strategic contexts. Most Department of Defense (DoD) missions are critically reliant on communications infrastructure, particularly in the context of command and control systems. The NCCP program strives to protect such critical missions at all layers of communications system functionality using a cost effective and automated approach for terrestrial, maritime, air, and space missions. Since most components of a communications system are increasingly being deployed using software, automated strategies of enabling physical layer, network layer, application layer interoperability, and rapid re-configurability are critical. Methods that dynamically allow multiple types of waveforms to be used in concert with multiple networking protocols, on hardware platforms that can handle a diverse set of protocols and capabilities are important. Because most of these capabilities will be delivered as communications services, the ability to analyze and rapidly reconstitute these services to manage the mission and inherent system complexities are critical, particularly when such missions are developed in large scale. Such complex system integration requires modern software and hardware practices and automated system repair capabilities to enable affordable, resilient operation in contested spectrum challenged DoD environments.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0603662D8Z_3_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Communication Systems
• Communications Protocols
• Complex Systems
• Control Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Embedded Systems
• Engineering
• Machine Learning
• Model Based Systems Engineering
• Software Development
• Space Communications
• Standards
• Systems Engineering
• Systems Management

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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