Joint Tactical Networking Center

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) 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), 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 and 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 and eventual Cloud migration, JCM Development to meet DoD and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoD Instruction 4630.09.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
EA8_0605030A_5_2040_PB_2022

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Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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