COMMAND AND CONTROL

Abstract

The Tactical Command System upgrades the Navy's Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) systems and processes C4I information for all warfare mission areas including planning, direction and reconstruction of missions for peacetime, wartime and times of crises. Programs will implement digital system-of-systems engineering by using tools such as Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Twins to create adaptable digital models to optimize system engineering from design, development and testing to operations and sustainment. Programs will use Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) processes for continuous development, integration, testing and deployment, along with common platform services such as Agile Core Services (ACS), for faster fielding of capability. Overall program development efforts include the investigation of emerging technologies through study, development and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. (Proj 0486) Tactical Support Center: The Tactical Mobile program provides agile evolutionary systems and equipment upgrades to support the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force Commanders with the capability to plan, direct and control the tactical operations of Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft and other assigned units within their respective area of responsibility. Looking ahead, TacMobile provides critical mission planning and reach-back capabilities between the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft, primarily the P-8A/Poseidon, and MQ-4C/Triton, and the Maritime Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise. These operations include littoral, open ocean, and over land long-dwell surveillance, anti-surface warfare, over-the-horizon targeting, counter-drug operations, power projection, antisubmarine warfare, mining, search and rescue, indications and warning, realtime full motion video collection and streaming/dissemination, and special operations. The missions are supported by Tactical Operations Centers, Mobile Tactical Operations Centers, and Fly Away Kits. (Proj 2343,2345,2363) Tactical METOC Applications; Fleet METOC Equipment, and Remote Sensing Capability Development (RSCD): The Air/Ocean Equipment Engineering (AOEE) projects provide new capabilities to support naval combat forces. This program engineers and developmentally tests organic and remote sensors, communication interfaces, and processing and display devices. This equipment is engineered to measure, ingest, store, process, distribute and display conditions of the physical environment that are essential to the optimum employment and performance of naval warfare systems. AOEE also engineers capabilities for shipboard and shore-based tactical systems. A major area of focus for the AOEE program is to provide the engineering development of specialized equipment and measurement capabilities that are intended to monitor specific conditions of the physical environment in hostile and remote areas in response to fleet demand signals for increased sensing capability and capacity to support battlespace collections and prediction on short to intermediate time scales. With such capabilities, the war fighters' situational awareness of the operational effects of the physical environment are made more certain. Efforts include investigation of emerging technologies through study, development, and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. Major emphasis areas include the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next) project (2343), Littoral Battlespace Sensors - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV) and the Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor (ESRP) project (2345), and the Remote Sensing Capability Development (RSCD) project (2363). (Proj 3050) Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) provides a self-contained, standardized, rapidly deployable, modular, scalable, and reconfigurable joint command and control (C2) capability to designated Geographic Combatant Commands (GCCs). DJC2 is the materiel solution to Defense Planning Guidance that called for the development of standing Joint Task Forces (JTFs) with a deployable C2 capability. DJC2 will ensure that Joint Force Commanders (JFC) are equipped, as well as trained and organized, to carry out their C2 responsibilities. DJC2 provides GCCs and JFCs a mission critical, integrated family of systems with which to plan, control, coordinate, execute, and assess operations. It is designed to deploy rapidly, set up within hours, and quickly provide necessary C2 mission and collaboration functionality across the full spectrum of JTF operations. The DJC2 has also been deployed in support of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) efforts. The capability is intended for all levels of conflict and will be reconfigurable to meet specific GCC and JTF mission requirements. This capability is interoperable with higher and adjacent echelons of command (to include coalition allies) as well as with supporting elements to include joint forces. (Proj 3260) Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) is the logistics information technology family of systems comprised of the Naval Operational Supply System (NOSS), the Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO), and an Integrated Data Environment (IDE). NOBLE enables combat lethality by generating and sustaining Navy and Marine Corps force readiness for operational commanders afloat and ashore, providing the foundational capability to keep ships driving, planes flying, and weapons firing from an equipment Operational Availability (Ao) perspective. NOBLE is the centerpiece of the Fleet's strategic imperative to improve Sailor, unit and group maintenance self-sufficiency combat operations in a communications and access-denied arena. NOBLE's mission is to provide the Navy and Marine Corps with an integrated, scalable, and cybersecure capability that supports the management of logistical information, material, and funds required to maintain and operate ships, submarines, and aircraft. The NOBLE FoS (Family of Systems) will provide direct support to warfighter readiness with maintenance, supply, and financial capabilities. These capabilities include enhanced situational awareness, planning, execution, personnel administration, and management of maintenance and supply logistics and business functions to ships/submarines, aviation squadrons, shore operational sites, and expeditionary units with a total user base exceeding 200,000. The NOBLE architecture will meet current and emerging demands for cyber security, enable Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR), drive efficiency into Navy logistics and aviation and maritime maintenance mission requirements, and eliminate over 700 application/database servers. NOBLE FoS will deploy to the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES)/Agile Core Services (ACS) afloat, and Department of the Navy (DON) commercial cloud computing environments ashore. (Proj 3324) Navy Air Operations Command and Control (NAOC2): NAOC2 integrates and tests Air Force program of record systems that provide an integrated and scalable planning system for standardized, secure, and automated decision support for Air Force, Joint, and Allied commanders worldwide. These programs provide automated air operations planning, execution management and intelligence capabilities at the Force level to include fleet commanders, numbered fleet commanders, Commander Carrier Strike Groups, Commander Expeditionary Strike Groups, Commander Landing Forces, and Joint Task Force Commanders. NAOC2 includes Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) and Kessel Run (Navy). Kessel Run (Navy) aligns with the Compile to Combat (C2C24) construct in providing Rapid, agile delivery of capabilities to the fleet by commercial cloud infrastructure using Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) cloud native applications. Kessel Run (Navy) is comprised of multiple tactical software applications that will provide continuous iterate delivery of software to shipboard and shore users. It will also align with the Joint C2 Reference Architecture (JC2RA) such as Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES). Kessel Run (Navy) is not natively compatible with Navy Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, such as CANES, and requires a significant level of system integration. Continuation of Navy integration and test efforts will significantly enhance the ability of the Joint Force Air Component Commander and Combined Air Operations Center personnel to plan daily air operations including strike, airlift, offensive/defensive air, missile defense, and refueling missions in support of combat operations. Developmental Testing is continuous and operates in parallel with the DevSecOps construct. Kessel Run (Navy) will be continued for new technology insertion into Navy infrastructure network and hardware in support of Naval Air C2 and Net Enabled Weapons system integration. Kessel Run (Navy) addresses the requirement of war fighter distributed planning and execution processes along with significantly improving Joint interoperability. TBMCS continues a hardware transition to CANES. Currently, TBMCS is the key system that is used to conduct real world air planning in the Joint and Navy environments. Kessel Run (Navy) will replace TBMCS while bringing more flexibility to the war fighter. (Proj 9123) FORCEnet: The mission of this effort is to deliver Information Dominance by (a) making the transformation to a Distributed, Networked force; (b) achieving interoperability based on Architectures and Standards; and (c) experimenting with, evaluating, and employing the enabling technologies. Effort is a non-acquisition program that is the operational instantiation of FORCEnet. The end-state is a distributed network of weapons, sensors, Command and Control (C2), platforms and warriors.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0604231N_5_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. SCHEDULE: Tactical METOC Applications (Project 2343): - Starting in FY2022, NITES-Next schedule is updated to reflect moving away from Build Decisions, Field Decisions and Fleet Capability Releases as NITES-Next migrates to more frequent software releases in accordance with transitioning to Adaptive Acquisition Framework, Software Acquisition Pathway (per DoDI 5000.02 of 23 Jan 20, Subj: Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework) with annual Acquisition Strategy updates. Remote Sensing Capability Development (RSCD) (Project 2363): - Starting in FY22 RSCD schedule is updated to reflect going away from Algorithm Integration Decision (AID) and to System Acceptance Decision (AD) and System Integration Decisions (ID) in order to align with software versioning standards. Algorithm Fielding Decisions (AFD) will become System Fielding Decisions (FD) and will also align to software versioning standards. Tactical Support Center (Project 0486): NAVAIR is designing and developing an interim P-8A Increment 3 ground station that will meet a subset of the TacMobile Increment 3 requirements. This interim solution will be recapitalized and incorporated into the full TacMobile Increment 3 design solution. Leveraging the NAVAIR interim solution will require some TacMobile redesign to achieve a smaller, lightweight, scalable Network-centric Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) configuration FY2022 funding will support a Delta Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in preparation for an FY 24 Engineering Assessment and a Critical Design Review (CDR) planned for FY26. Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) (Project 3260): In FY20 ASN RDA issued an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) impacting delivery of the NOBLE Family of Systems (FoS) which directed the designation of one maintenance, repair and overhaul capability into the Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO) Program Of Record (POR) in FY21. N-MRO is not a new capability or new start. In FY20 and prior, these requirements were captured under NAMS and NOME. Funds were realigned starting in FY21 from Naval Aviation Maintenance System (NAMS) and Naval Operational Maintenance Environment (NOME) sub-projects under PE 0604231N Project 3260. The schedule slip from Q4/FY21 to Q1/FY22 is due to the complexity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) tool in obtaining multiple (10+) cybersecurity authorizations (ATOs) for the N-MRO, NOSS, and IDE unclassified and classified environments. FUNDING: Remote Sensing Capability Development (RSCD) (Project 2363): - FY 2021 to FY 2022 decrease (-$3.077M) allows for completion of cloud based computing environment and data repository to test and evaluate, create performance metrics, and understand computational performance of algorithms and technologies that enhance the fleet's battle space awareness. Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) (Project 3260): -In FY20 ASN RDA issued an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) impacting delivery of the NOBLE Family of Systems (FoS) which directed the designation of one maintenance, repair and overhaul capability into the Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO) Program Of Record (POR) in FY21. N-MRO is not a new capability or new start. In FY20 and prior, these requirements were funded under Naval Aviation Maintenance System (NAMS) and Naval Operational Maintenance Environment (NOME). -Funds were realigned starting in FY21 from Naval Aviation Maintenance System (NAMS) and Naval Operational Maintenance Environment (NOME) sub-projects under PE 0604231N Project 3260. -Increase in funding profile in FY22 provides additional resources to address wholesale and retail Ordnance Information System (OIS) capability and integration efforts with the N-MRO solution to provide a unified Organizational, Intermediate, and Depot maintenance program. This includes an increase in scope of capability to support deployment of NOSS and N-MRO Build 1 capability within the Classified CANES / ACS environments and IDE. Naval Operational Supply System (NOSS): Investment required to complete Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Limited Deployment (LD) Build 1 prototyping and configuration of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) capabilities in preparation for Developmental/User Acceptance Testing and obtain Functional Manager Certification (FMC) in FY22. Investment supports attainment of multiple Authorizations to Operate (ATOs), software licensing, site installation activities, data migration and validation, training development, testing and deployment of NOSS, capabilities. Investment includes license cost sharing for the CANES/ACS Afloat and Ashore Cloud Hosting/Integrated Data Environment (IDE) solution. Naval Aviation Maintenance System (NAMS): Funding realigned to N-MRO starting in FY21 per ADM issued by ASN RDA. Naval Operational Maintenance Environment (NOME): Funding realigned to N-MRO starting in FY21 per ADM issued by ASN RDA. Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO): Funding realigned from NAMS and NOME starting in FY21 per ADM issued by ASN RDA. Investment required to complete OTA Aviation and Maritime LD Build 1 prototyping and configuration of COTS capabilities in preparation for Developmental/User Acceptance Testing and Functional Manager Certification (FMC) in FY22. Investment supports attainment of multiple ATOs, software licensing, site installation activities, data migration and validation, training development, testing & deployment of N-MRO capabilities. N-MRO has a unique set of operational and functional requirements for aviation and maritime sites; and investment will be required for license cost sharing for the CANES/ACS Afloat and Ashore Cloud Hosting/IDE solution. FORCEnet (Project 9123): Decrease of $0.007M between FY 2021 and FY 2022 is attributed to additional support required to identify critical Portfolio Health Assessment(PHA)architectural dependencies that enable mission situational awareness.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Application Software
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Collision Avoidance
• Combat Areas
• Control Systems
• Information Systems
• Military Organizations
• Military Science
• Naval Operations
• Naval Warfare
• Navy
• Network Protocols
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

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