TACOMS Post 2000 - Interoperability in Communications
Abstract
In NATO, interoperable communications standardization activities have taken many forms and have used many different approaches in order to achieve this goal. In 1986, the NATO project group six (PG/6) was responsible for developing interoperable communications standards in the land combat zone. In the PG/6 report, it established the methodology to develop the interoperable communications standards, and conceived the TACOMS project. The TACOMS Post 2000 project was sponsored through an MOU signed by a thirteen NATO nations that formed the project steering group (PSG). It was the TACOMS PSG who in turn asked the MOU nations to financially support and to provide the personnel resources to establish an international project office (IPO) that was located outside of Paris, France. France was the host organization (HO) for the project. A project manager, a principal engineer, and five systems engineers leaded the TP2K IPO from different nations who oversee the work of TAC ONE, a defence industry consortium of five principal contractors, and 13 subcontractors from each of the participating TACOMS nations. The TACOMS contract was a fixed price of 22M Euros, with a required equal work share for each of the subcontractors. The goal for TP2K was to develop draft standardization agreements, STANAGs that will provide NATO and its coalition forces commanders with an interoperable tactical communications infrastructure. As a result of TACOMS Post 2000 project, set of 11 STANAGS was delivered to SC/6 in June 5005. The TP2K standards will allow multinational network systems to inter-operate with the maximum of coalition operational efficiency, while the national system user and network elements maintain their value. In the STANAG 4206, and many legacy based systems interoperability is achieved by defining a common NATO standard information structures and formats, and then exchanging data over dedicated gateways that are used as portals between the systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA567796
Entities
People
- Krzysztof Lysek