Joint Tactical Network Center (JTNC)

Abstract

The JTNC is responsible for ensuring interoperable, secure, and affordable waveform and wireless communications by recommending standards, conducting compliance and certification assessments in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) policies, and maintaining a DoD Waveform Information Repository (IR). JTNC (1) provides DoD Waveform Standards and Software Communications Architecture (SCA), (2) DoD Waveform IR management and configuration control, (3) technical assessments of DoD Waveform IR products, and (4) serves as a technical advisor to the JTNC Board of Directors (BoD). This mission is executed in conjunction with other government agencies to include the National Security Agency (NSA), the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), and the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA), as well as the Services. Particular attention is paid to ensuring that interagency work is collaborative and eliminates duplicative capability. JTNC efforts support Software Defined Radio (SDR) programs and industry. JTNC enables a common software baseline that is hardware agnostic leading to increased competition.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0605030A_5_2040_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
FY15 increase to meet BoD approved mission requirements. FY17 increase is the consolidation of other Service funding into the Army PE for execution. In accordance with the Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) and Charter dated 20 January 2014, the JTNC Program will remain under a joint budget strategy funded by the three MILDEPs (funding is in Army PE 0605030A, Navy PE 0605030N, and Air Force PE 0605030F). As part of the joint program budget strategy, each MILDEP budgets for approximately one-third of the total program RDT&E funds. Prior to the year of execution, the JTNC funding is consolidated in Army PE 0605030A for execution.
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Communication Systems
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • National Security
  • Product Development
  • Program Management
  • Radio Equipment
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Standards
  • Tactical Networks
  • Tactical Radios
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wireless Communications

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

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