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 supporting capabilities to include a common platform hosting environment and data exchange solutions. 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 150,000. 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) afloat, Department of the Navy (DON) commercial cloud computing environments ashore, and US Marine Corps operating environments. (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 Applications Kit for Enterprise Navy (KRAKEN). KRAKEN 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. KRAKEN 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). KRAKEN 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. KRAKEN 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. KRAKEN 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. KRAKEN will replace TBMCS while bringing more flexibility to the war fighter. (Proj 9123) FORCEnet: The mission of this effort is to support Portfolio Health Assessments (PHA). PHA analyzes the Navy's Information Warfare portfolio by focusing on the total capability to support Navy missions rather than on individual program health. PHA looks at more than the Naval Tactical Grid/Information Warfare (NTG/IW) portion of the "Killchain". PHA uses Mission Engineering Architecture, M&S, and Analysis techniques to integrate the sensors, platforms, weapons, and operators into the NTG/IW architecture to ensure that the Navy delivers to mission level capability.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0604231N_5_1319_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY2023 funding request was reduced by .547 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Technical: Not applicable. SCHEDULE: Tactical Support Center (Project 0486): 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 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. FY2023 funding will complete TacMobile Increment 3 Critical Design Review (CDR) activities and commence initial System Integration Testing (SIT) in preparation for FY25 Capability Package 1 (CP-1) Developmental Testing (DT), and Capability Package 2 (CP-2) Operational Assessment in FY 27. Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) (Project 3260): The schedule changes are due to the ASN(RDA) ADM of Aug 30 2021 which directed changes to the NOSS and N-MRO acquisition strategy, fielding plan, and architecture. An updated NOSS and N-MRO acquisition strategy to include supporting capabilities (i.e. a common hosting platform for enhanced cyber security and speed to fielding and data exchange solution). FUNDING: Fleet METOC Equipment (Project 2345): FY 2023 funding request was reduced by $.064 to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Tactical METOC Applications (Project 2343): NITES-Next increase of $1.456 from FY 2022 to FY 2023 will increase software development efforts to support cloud infrastructure and operational capabilities identified by the Fleet and defined by stakeholders through quarterly capability prioritization meetings. Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) (Project 3260): Investment required to complete NOSS Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Limited Deployment (LD) Build 1 integration, testing, training, site installation activities, data migration and validation activities, Government IV&V and Functional Managers Certification (FMC), and perform operational testing (i.e. User Acceptance Testing (UAT)) in FY23. Investment required to complete OTA LD Build 2 prototyping and configuration of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) capabilities in preparation for integration, testing, training, site installation activities, data migration and validation activities, and plan/preparation for the combined NOSS and NMRO Limited Deployment (LD) 1 and 2 Government IV&V in support of FMC, and UAT efforts targeted for Fiscal Year 2024. 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. Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO): Funding realigned from NAMS and NOME starting in FY21. Investment required to complete N-MRO Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Limited Deployment (LD) Build 1 integration, testing, training, site installation activities, data migration and validation activities, Government IV&V and Functional Managers Certification (FMC), and perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in FY23. Investment required to complete delivery of the common platform hosting environment and data exchange solution to support the integration of Logistics IT systems and applications within the Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Services (CANES), the DON commercial cloud ashore, and the US Marine Corps operating environments. Investment required to complete OTA LD Build 2 prototyping and configuration of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) capabilities in preparation for integration, testing, training, site installation activities, data migration and validation activities, and plan/preparation for the combined NOSS and NMRO Limited Deployment (LD) 1 and 2 Government IV&V in support of FMC, and UAT efforts targeted for Fiscal Year 2024. Investment supports attainment of multiple Authorizations to Operate (ATOs), software licensing, site installation activities, data migration and validation, training development, testing and deployment of N-MRO. Increase in funding profile from FY22 to FY23 due to FY22 negotiated N-MRO licensing costs, and inclusion of licensing and delivery of the common platform hosting environment solution to support the combined N-MRO and NOSS Limited Deployments 1 and 2 venues for Fiscal Year 2024. Navy Air Operations Command and Control (Project 3324): FY23 increase is driven by inflation. FORCEnet (Project 9123): Decrease of $2.218M between FY22 and FY23 is attributed to a NAVAL Information Warfare and Architecture vertical reduction, eliminating funding beginning in FY23. --- FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Application Software
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Collision Avoidance
• Command And Control
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Information Systems
• Information Warfare
• Military Organizations
• Naval Operations
• Navy
• Network Protocols
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

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