Link-16 Tactical Data Link (TDL) Transformation
Abstract
Mission Description and Budget Item Justification: The Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems (JTIDS) program supports collaborative efforts to achieve strategy-driven capability development spanning the suite of Department enablers and programs to include Communications and Networks, Cyber, Command and Control (C2), space, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), and technology within the Assistant Secretary of Defense Acquisition Portfolio. JTIDS also supports matters relating to acquisition and the integration and protection of technology that enable capability for the warfighter, including cross-cutting functional capabilities that advance the acquisition enterprise, drive innovative acquisition approaches, policy, acquisition management, advanced software acquisition, and business/financial management. These efforts include conducting mission informed capability-based analysis; portfolio assessments to include analyzing modernization trends that result in the development of roadmaps or business area strategies that support balanced investment decisions; and monitoring and assessing Major Defense Acquisition Programs(MDAPs) , Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS), and defense Business Systems in a capability portfolio context. Activities in the JTIDS include (1) mission informed capability-based analysis; (2) Interoperability & Integration; (3) roadmap development and support to business area strategies; and (4) support tools and guidance; (5) Innovative Acquisition Approaches, (6) Software acquisition, and (7) advanced acquisition software and software provenance. JTIDS also enables cross-department collaboration to enable enterprise-wide approaches. JTIDS also enables cross-department collaboration to enable enterprise-wide approaches. This includes: (1) vertical and horizontal integration activities within the Department and with the interagency where appropriate; (2) engaging in a coordinated portfolio-based approach to planning, programming, budgeting and execution; and (3) reform efforts at the legislative, governance, policy, management and execution levels. JTIDS is focused on capabilities-based portfolio management of the Department's key enablers, thus there are many shared equities with in ASD(A) and across OSD. To fully meet mission need the JTIDS program supports extensive collaboration with required alliances and with other OSD PSA's.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 771_0604771D8Z_5_0400_PB_2020
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