Shipboard LAN/WAN
Abstract
The Shipboard LAN / WAN / Integrated Shipboard Network System (ISNS) provides Navy ships, including submarines, and Ashore sites with reliable, high-speed SECRET and UNCLASSIFIED Local Area Networks (LAN)s and wireless network technologies. The LAN provides Basic Network Information Distribution Services (BNIDS) and access to the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) Wide Area Network (WAN) (Secure and Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network -SIPRNet and NIPRNet). It provides the network infrastructure and services to enable real-time information exchange within the ship and between afloat units, Component Commanders, and Fleet Commanders. It is a key factor in the implementation of the Navy's portion of Joint Vision 2020 and the migration of existing legacy systems into the IT-21 strategy. Program funding supports the design, development and testing of the ISNS LAN for surface ships, shore sites, and SubLAN for submarines. The ISNS program maximizes the use of both Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software and hardware. Engineering and technical support is provided so that existing systems will keep pace with hardware and software that continues to be commercially supported. ISNS uses a combination of high speed wired and wireless switches, routers, access points, servers, workstations and operating system software technologies to provide network access to classified and unclassified applications for use by ship's force, embarked units, embarked commanders and their staffs. Under the Navy's information modernization strategy, full synchronization of shipboard networks, mission and information applications, radio/satellite communications, and shore data dissemination infrastructure are necessary to ensure end-to-end mission capability. The Integrated Shipboard Networking System program is closely synchronized on a ship by ship basis with over 460 different systems of application configurations including the following: Global Command and Control System Maritime (GCCS-M), Navy Tactical Command Support System (NTCSS), Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS), Theatre Medical Information Program - Maritime (TMIP-M), Defense Messaging System (DMS), Automated Digital Network System (ADNS), Global Broadcasting System (GBS), Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS) and Information Security (INFOSEC) programs. The ISNS program provides the infrastructure to support implementation/fielding of these programs. The LAN modernization rate must keep pace with hardware and software that is supported commercially in order to provide a supportable and secure FORCEnet infrastructure. ISNS includes Afloat Core Services (ACS) which is the mechanism to deliver the FORCEnet interface to the warfighter. ACS provides a composeable warfighting environment enabling dynamic configuration of capabilities tailored to meet specific warfighting missions. As the warfighting mission changes, the capabilities or services can be re-configured on the fly to meet the new warfighting requirement. This dynamic reconfiguration of services also known as "plug and fight" meets the composeable services vision of FORCEnet. ACS also provides the common core enterprise services and technical framework to allow organizations ubiquitous access to reliable, decision-quality information through a net-based services infrastructure and applications to bridge real-time and near-real-time communities of interest (COI). ACS will empower the end user to pull information from any available source, with minimal latency, to support the mission. Its capabilities will allow Department of the Navy as well as Global Information Grid (GIG) users to task, post, process, use, store, manage and protect information resources on demand for warfighters, policy makers and support personnel. ACS will utilize a spiral process for delivering capability to the warfighter. The ISNS Inc 1, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Networks and Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) programs began migration to ISNS Inc 2/Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) in FY09. ISNS Inc 2/CANES will serve to transition numerous Fleet networks to a single, adaptive, available, secure computing network infrastructure while delivering enhanced technologies in: Integrated Voice, Video and Data; Common Computing Environment (CCE); ACS; and Multi-Level Security (MLS)/Cross Domain Solutions (CDS). Development transition to CANES began in FY 2010. The Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System - Maritime (CENTRIXS-M) program provides US Navy ships and submarines with secure, reliable, high-speed Local Area Network (LAN) with access to the Coalition Wide Area Network (WAN) to include CENTRIXS Four-Eyes (CFE), Global Counter Terrorism Task Force (GCTF), NATO Information Data Transfer System (NIDTS), Multinational Coalition Force - Iraq (MCFI), bilateral networks such as CENTRIXS-U.S. Japan (J) and CENTRIXS-US. Korea (K), and Communities Of Interest (COI) virtual networks such as Coalition Naval Forces - CENTCOM (CNFC), and Cooperative Maritime Forces - Pacific (CMFP). The CENTRIXS system provides real-time tactical and operational information sharing at the SECRET and SECRET REL (Releasable) level between naval afloat units, Component Commanders, Fleet Commanders, Numbered Fleet Commanders and Coalition Forces/Allies. When the CENTRIXS network is combined with other subsystems (Radio/Satellite Comms), it delivers an end-to-end network centric warfighting capability. CENTRIXS is the primary means for sharing classified, but releasable, data with coalition partners to enable the Navy to mean the National Strategy for Maritime Domain Awareness. The CENTRIXS program is comprised of Block 0, I, and II systems fielded across the Fleet, and Increment 1 which provides a network infrastructure that allows simultaneous access to multiple Coalition WAN and incorporates the Common PC Operating System Environment (COMPOSE) which provides a server and client operating system environment for other applications and collaborative tools such as Same time Chat, Domino and Command and Control PC (C2PC) as means to share a Common Operational Picture (COP) and exchange information using Collaboration At Sea (CAS). The CENTRIXS program uses both Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware and software and Open Standards to maximize commercial technology and support. Engineering and technical support ensures existing systems are upgraded and modified to keep pace with current technology and industry. Funding supports the design, development and testing of the CENTRIXS LAN for surface platforms and the CENTRIXS Network Operations Center (NOC). The goal of the CENTRIXS program is to provide a cost-efficient, operationally effective network that dramatically reduces current infrastructure requirements while maximizing operational flexibility and warfighter utility in a coalition environment. Multi-Level Thin Client (MLTC) architecture supports shipboard Space, Weight and Power (SWAP) reductions and includes initiatives for server virtualization (ability to run multiple servers on a single server), drop scalability leveraging existing SIPRNET drops, remote authentication and remote system management. Additionally, funding will provide design, development and testing for a Unit Level MLTC system (provides a compressed shipboard rack/client footprint) and initiatives to include Language Translation, COI and Network Enclave Agility (ability to dynamically shift between all coalition networks and COIs) and Multi-Level Chat (a Cross Domain Solution (CDS) chat capability). The CENTRIXS-M program will begin migrating to CANES in FY12. ISNS Inc 2/CANES will serve to transition numerous Fleet networks to a single, adaptive, available, secure computing network infrastructure while delivering enhanced technologies in: Integrated Voice, Video and Data; Common Computing Environment (CCE); Afloat Core Services (ACS); and Multi-Level Security (MLS)/Cross Domain Solutions (CDS). Submarine Local Area Network (SubLAN): The SubLAN program provides Navy submarines, with reliable, high-speed mission critical SECRET and mission critical UNCLASSIFIED Local Area Networks (LANs). When the SubLAN network is combined with other subsystems, it delivers an end-to-end network-centric warfare capability by hosting applications capable of connectivity with coalition communications enclaves. The SubLAN program provides network infrastructure including an Unclassified Wireless Local Area Network (UWLAN), servers, and the Common Personal Computer Operating System Environment (COMPOSE) which provides the operating system, office automation, security, and other basic network services used by all hosted applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 2307_0604231N_5_1319_PB_2012
Related Documents
- Root: Tactical Command System
- Child Accomplishment: Integrated Shipboard Network System (ISNS)
- Child Accomplishment: Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS)
- Child Accomplishment: Submarine Local Area Network (SubLAN)