Joint Tactical Network Center (JTNC)

Abstract

This funding line supports the Army Network Modernization Strategy line of effort (LOE) 1, Unified Network. Efforts are aligned to support the Network-Cross Functional Team capability set approach to achieve the network modernization strategy. The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) is chartered to enable the Department of Defense (DoD)'s rapid identification, characterization, procurement, fielding, and sustainment of modular, innovative tactical communications products that ensure secure, interoperable, and resilient Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The JTNC provides technical expertise to facilitate tactical communications management, innovation, and standardization. The JTNC: (1) maintains a cyber-hardened DoD Information Repository (IR), (2) provides Technical Analyses/Capability Characterizations on tactical communications products, (3) provides Open Systems Architecture Standards, (4) provides exportability analysis and licensing reviews, and (5) serves as Technical Advisor to the Communications, Command, and Control Leadership Board (C3LB) and Tactical Communications Senior Steering Group (TCSSG). JTNC mission is executed in coordination with key government stakeholders to include: C3LB, TCSSG, Communications Technologies and Waveforms Working Group (CTWWG), Resiliency Sub-Working Group (RSWG), the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO), Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)), Joint Staff J6 (JS J6), The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, abbreviated USD(R&E), and the Services. Particular attention is paid to ensuring that interagency work is collaborative and eliminates duplicative capability. The JTNC enables a common software baseline that is hardware agnostic leading to increased competition for Software Defined Radios (SDR). Through collaboration with DoD matrixed and industry partners, the JTNC is engaged in the analysis of directed software, artifacts, and support of the National Security Agency (NSA) Commercial Communications Security (COMSEC) Evaluation Program (CCEP). Additionally, the JTNC participates in Standards-related activities such as the Interface Control Working Group (ICWG), and continues evolving its Capabilities Characterization and Joint Communications Marketplace (CC & JCM) and Modular Radio Architecture (MRA) processes. Further JTNC directed requirements outlined by the C3LB consist of CTWWG, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), continued development/maturation of the DoD IR framework & Cloud migration, as well as JCM Development to meet DoD and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoD Instruction 4630.09.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0605030A_5_2040_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: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Command And Control
• Commercial Communications
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• National Security
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Program Management
• Software Defined Radio
• Standards
• Systems Engineering
• Tactical Communications
• Tactical Networks
• Teamwork
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and 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