Command and Control Systems

Mission — COMMAND AND CONTROL source

The Tactical Command System upgrades the Navy's Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) systems and processes C4I information for all warfare mission areas including planning, direction and reconstruction of missions for peacetime, wartime and times of crises. Programs will implement digital system-of-systems engineering by using tools such as Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Twins to create adaptable digital models to optimize system engineering from design, development and testing to operations and sustainment. Programs will use Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) processes for continuous development, integration, testing and deployment, along with common platform services such as Agile Core Services (ACS), for faster fielding of capability. Overall program development efforts include the investigation of emerging technologies through study, development and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. (Proj 0486) Tactical Support Center: The Tactical Mobile program provides agile evolutionary systems and equipment upgrades to support the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force Commanders with the capability to plan, direct and control the tactical operations of Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft and other assigned units within their respective area of responsibility. Looking ahead, TacMobile provides critical mission planning and reach-back capabilities between the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft, primarily the P-8A/Poseidon, and MQ-4C/Triton, and the Maritime Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise. These operations include littoral, open ocean, and over land long-dwell surveillance, anti-surface warfare, over-the-horizon targeting, counter-drug operations, power projection, antisubmarine warfare, mining, search and rescue, indications and warning, realtime full motion video collection and streaming/dissemination, and special operations. The missions are supported by Tactical Operations Centers, Mobile Tactical Operations Centers, and Fly Away Kits. (Proj 2343,2345) Tactical meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) Applications and Fleet METOC Equipment: The Air/Ocean Equipment Engineering (AOEE) projects provide new capabilities to support naval combat forces. This program engineers and developmentally tests organic and remote sensors, communication interfaces, and processing and display devices. This equipment is engineered to measure, ingest, store, process, distribute and display conditions of the physical environment that are essential to the optimum employment and performance of naval warfare systems. AOEE also engineers capabilities for shipboard and shore-based tactical systems. A major area of focus for the AOEE program is to provide the engineering development of specialized equipment and measurement capabilities that are intended to monitor specific conditions of the physical environment in hostile and remote areas in response to fleet demand signals for increased sensing capability and capacity to support battlespace collections and prediction on short to intermediate time scales. With such capabilities, the war fighters' situational awareness of the operational effects of the physical environment are made more certain. Efforts include investigation of emerging technologies through study, development, and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. Major emphasis areas include the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next) project (2343), Littoral Battlespace Sensors - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV) and the Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor (ESRP) project (2345). (Proj 3050) Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) provides a self-contained, standardized, rapidly deployable, modular, scalable, and reconfigurable joint command and control (C2) capability to designated Geographic Combatant Commands (GCCs). DJC2 is the materiel solution to Defense Planning Guidance that called for the development of standing Joint Task Forces (JTFs) with a deployable C2 capability. DJC2 will ensure that Joint Force Commanders (JFC) are equipped, as well as trained and organized, to carry out their C2 responsibilities. DJC2 provides GCCs and JFCs a mission critical, integrated family of systems with which to plan, control, coordinate, execute, and assess operations. It is designed to deploy rapidly, set up within hours, and quickly provide necessary C2 mission and collaboration functionality across the full spectrum of JTF operations. The DJC2 has also been deployed in support of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) efforts. The capability is intended for all levels of conflict and will be reconfigurable to meet specific GCC and JTF mission requirements. This capability is interoperable with higher and adjacent echelons of command (to include coalition allies) as well as with supporting elements to include joint forces. (Proj 3260) Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) is the logistics information technology family of systems (FoS) comprised of the Naval Operational Supply System (NOSS), the Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO), and supporting capabilities to include a common platform hosting environment and data exchange solutions, and the Logistics Integrated Data Environment (L-IDE) which supports and align readiness data systems to ensure that trusted, critical logistics data is widely available to or accessible by mission commanders, warfighters, decision-makers, and mission partners in a real-time, useable, secure, and linked manner to enable analytics, and support broader DoD/DON data efforts. NOBLE enables combat lethality by generating and sustaining Navy and Marine Corps force readiness for operational commanders afloat and ashore, providing the foundational capability to keep ships driving, planes flying, and weapons firing from an equipment Operational Availability (Ao) perspective. NOBLE is the centerpiece of the Fleet's strategic imperative to improve Sailor, unit and group maintenance self-sufficiency combat operations in a communications and access-denied arena. NOBLE's mission is to provide the Navy and Marine Corps with an integrated, scalable, and cyber-secure capability that supports the management of logistical information, material, and funds required to maintain and operate ships, submarines, and aircraft. NOBLE FoS will provide direct support to warfighter readiness with maintenance, supply, and financial capabilities, and a federated data environment to enable information integration for decision making in contested environments, and real-time data driven operational and ashore readiness analytics. These capabilities include enhanced situational awareness, planning, execution, personnel administration, and management of maintenance and supply logistics and business functions to ships/submarines, aviation squadrons, shore operational sites, and expeditionary units with a total user base exceeding 150,000. The NOBLE FoS will support Aviation and Maritime organizational, intermediate, and depot level maintenance activities and facilities. The NOBLE architecture will meet current and emerging demands for cyber security, enable Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR), drive efficiency into Navy logistics and aviation and maritime maintenance mission requirements, enable analytics, and eliminate over 700 application/database servers. NOBLE FoS will deploy to the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) afloat, Non-CANES platforms, Department of the Navy (DON) commercial cloud computing environments ashore, and US Marine Corps operating environments. NOBLE FoS will deploy to the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) afloat, Non-CANES platforms, Department of the Navy (DON) commercial cloud computing environments ashore, and US Marine Corps operating environments. (Proj 3324) Navy Air Operations Command and Control (NAOC2): NAOC2 integrates and tests Air Force program of record systems that provide an integrated and scalable planning system for standardized, secure, and automated decision support for Air Force, Joint, and Allied commanders worldwide. These programs provide automated air operations planning, execution management and intelligence capabilities at the Force level to include fleet commanders, numbered fleet commanders, Commander Carrier Strike Groups, Commander Expeditionary Strike Groups, Commander Landing Forces, and Joint Task Force Commanders. NAOC2 includes Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) and Kessel Run Applications Kit for Enterprise Navy (KRAKEN). KRAKEN (when fielded) will provide rapid, agile delivery of capabilities to the fleet by commercial cloud infrastructure using Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) cloud native applications. KRAKEN is comprised of multiple tactical software applications that will provide continuous iterate delivery of software to shipboard and shore users. It will also align with the Joint C2 Reference Architecture (JC2RA) such as Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES). KRAKEN is not natively compatible with Navy Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, such as CANES, and requires a significant level of system integration. Continuation of Navy integration and test efforts will significantly enhance the ability of the Joint Force Air Component Commander and Combined Air Operations Center personnel to plan daily air operations including strike, airlift, offensive/defensive air, missile defense, and refueling missions in support of combat operations. Developmental Testing is continuous and operates in parallel with the DevSecOps construct. KRAKEN will be continued for new technology insertion into Navy infrastructure network and hardware in support of Naval Air C2 and Net Enabled Weapons system integration. KRAKEN addresses the requirement of war fighter distributed planning and execution processes along with significantly improving Joint interoperability. TBMCS continues a hardware transition to CANES. Currently, TBMCS is the key system that is used to conduct real world air planning in the Joint and Navy environments. KRAKEN will replace TBMCS while bringing more flexibility to the war fighter. (Proj 9123) FORCEnet: Funding supports IW Portfolio Health Assessments (PHAs) of Navy mission areas and identifies gaps in Information Warfare (IW) capabilities in the context of assessed mission areas. Funding supports vignettes, technical baselines, architecture products, and briefings developed to support sponsor decision making processes. PHA analyzes the Navy's Information Warfare portfolio by focusing on the total capability to support Navy missions rather than on individual program health. PHA looks at more than the Naval Tactical Grid/Information Warfare (NTG/IW) portion of the "Killchain". PHA uses Mission Engineering Architecture, Modeling & Simulation, and Analysis techniques to integrate the sensors, platforms, weapons, and operators into the NTG/IW architecture to ensure that the Navy delivers to mission level capability.

Mission — Tactical Support Center source

TacMobile is the Ground Station that brings Enterprise Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) to the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF) community. TacMobile is a long-running, multi-year acquisition program that provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) for Navy's MPRF. From within Tactical Operations Centers (TOC) at well-supported airfields, TacMobile provides theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) commanders a common tactical picture while providing pre-flight and post-flight support to manned and unmanned MPRF aircraft. From within Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (MTOC), TacMobile supports manned MPRF aircraft at the tactical edge of operations. TacMobile Fly-Away Kits (FAK) support manned MPRF aircraft in short-duration expeditionary settings. Services provided include analysis and correlation of diverse sensor information; data management support; command decision aids; rapid data communication; mission planning, evaluation and reach-back dissemination of surveillance data and threat alerts to operational users ashore and afloat, and to the Maritime Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Environment. The TacMobile program uses an evolutionary development strategy consisting of Capability Packages to meet new and emergent Fleet requirements, while retaining current capabilities. These capability packages consist of a three phase approach: Capability Package One (CP-1) which addresses SECRET domain only (planned fielding in FY25); Capability Package Two (CP-2) meets the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in FY28); and Capability Package Three (CP-3) will meet full Capability Production Document (CPD) requirements. These Capability Packages are planned and resourced to support the MPRF Family of Systems aircraft: P-8A Poseidon aircraft modernization and upgrades; and Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS). In FY 2026, TacMobile begins shifting from its current TacMobile Inc 2.1 baseline to a modernized and modular hardware and software architecture (Inc. 3.0 baseline), leveraging Model Based Systems Engineering, and increased cloud, virtualization, micro-services, and container based technology. Transition of development environments, personnel, and processes to a cloud-based Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) approach to meet fleet Size Weight and Power (SWaP) and cyber resiliency requirements. Conduct Increment 3 Critical Design Review (CDR) and finalize documentation. Procurement of hardware to support development of the engineering development model (EDM) to meet fleet requirements to support Higher Than Secret (HTS) operations with expeditionary HTS shelters. Initiate Interim Authority To Test (IATT) preparation for HTS Lab and System accreditation. Commence EDM integration. Incorporate a program Test Lead and integrate Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COTF) involvement for Test and Evaluation (T&E) oversight of Developmental Test activities. Commence transition of Mission Planning Software from legacy End-Of-Life Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) to Next-Generation Open Mission Systems (NOMS) architecture. NAVAIR is designing and developing an interim P-8A Increment 3 ground station (PGS) that leverages TacMobile Inc 2.1 communications infrastructure at fixed site Tactical Operations Centers (TOC). This PGS instantiation meets a subset of the TacMobile requirements. TacMobile Inc 3 leverages the PGS architecture with the focus on increased mobility (Size, Weight, Power and Cooling (SWaP-C)) for the Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (MTOC) to meet the complete TacMobile Inc 3 requirements. The TacMobile Inc 3 system will be aligned to support P-8A Inc 3 Block 2 ECP 6 and ECP 7 as well as Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) capabilities, adding an additional security enclave, while offsetting the size/weight/power/cooling (SWaP-C) requirements to support worldwide expeditionary Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF) Aircraft operations. The TacMobile Increment 3 integration continues to ensure interoperability with emerging MPRF Aircraft and Sensors, streamline Pre-Flight Insertion Data (PID) processing, and facilitate the MPRF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare data Processing - Exploitation - Dissemination (PED) capabilities within the TacMobile systems. The PGS partial solution will be recapitalized where feasible and incorporated into the full TacMobile Increment 3 design solution. Leveraging PGS will require some TacMobile redesign to achieve a smaller, lightweight, scalable Network-centric Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) configuration.

Mission — Tactical METOC Applications source

The Tactical Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Applications Project provides cyber secure operational effects decision aid capabilities for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters in the context of Joint Operations in a net-centric environment. This project funds the agile software development of the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System - Next Generation (NITES-Next) program of record. The NITES-Next program identifies and transitions state-of-the-art decision support software technologies from the government and commercial industry's technology base, and then demonstrates and validates these capabilities before fielding. These software decision support tools provide platform, sensor, communications, and weapon systems performance assessments for warfighters in terms of their littoral and deep-strike battlespace environments. These assessments allow mission planners and warfighters, from Unit to Theater level, to optimize their sensor employment on airborne, surface, and subsurface platforms in support of Naval Composite Warfare mission areas including Undersea Warfare (USW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Mine Warfare (MIW), Amphibious Warfare (AMW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW), Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Strike Warfare (STW), Expeditionary Warfare (EXW), Electronic Warfare (EW), Information Operations (IO), Intelligence Operations (INT), Non-Combat Operations (NCO), Command, Control, Communication (CCC), and Naval Special Warfare (NSW). Performance assessments leading to improvements in operational and tactical control are conducted through a two-tiered approach: 1) METOC Decision Aids and, 2) Operational Effects Decision Aids (OEDAs). METOC Decision Aids consist of a series of analysis tools which characterize the physical environment conditions of the battlespace based on the best set of physical environment data available at the time (i.e., some combination of historical and/or real-time (or near real-time) in-situ, and numerically modeled forecast data). OEDAs use the METOC Decision Aid information by fusing it with relevant, often-classified, sensor and target data to predict how weapons and sensor systems will perform. Performance results are displayed in tabular and graphic formats integrated into net-centric visualization tools for use by mission planners, and combat/weapon system operators to develop localization plans, USW/AAW/ASUW screens, STW profiles, and AMW ingress and egress points. METOC Decision Aids and OEDAs use data obtained through direct interfaces to Navy combat systems. Cyber secure capabilities are a current emphasis required to characterize and/or predict sensor and weapons system performance in the highly complex littoral environments in support of regional conflict scenarios. It addresses multi-warfare areas, particularly shallow water ASW, NSW, and missile and air defense/strike capabilities. Funding supports development and integration efforts for METOC systems to generate and collect METOC data and fuse multiple intelligence inputs to more robustly characterize and predict tactical atmospheric and oceanographic conditions. This integrated METOC picture will support real-time battlespace awareness of propagation conditions affecting signals across the electromagnetic spectrum. METOC data will be fused with other intelligence data and automatically provided to shipboard combat systems to inform kinetic and non-kinetic fires. FY2026 funding supports the development and integration efforts of NITES-next providing METOC production center data to programs and platforms in support of denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments. Funding will continue the software development of highest priority capabilities as outlined in the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) Capability Prioritization Meetings (CPMs) to include the Forecaster Toolkit Ashore, continued expansion into the cloud and JWICS enclave, and lightning capability.

Mission — Fleet METOC Equipment source

The Littoral Battlespace Sensing - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV) project provides for the engineering and manufacturing development of sensors, communication interfaces, processing and display meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) equipment. This equipment is designed to provide future mission capabilities for war fighters to measure, ingest, store, process, distribute and display METOC parameters and derived products. This project also exploits new government off-the-shelf/commercial off-the-shelf technologies, tactical sensors and web enablement for the Navy's computer-based tactical shipboard and shore capability used to predict and assess the operational effects of the physical environment on the performance of platforms, weapons and sensor systems. This project includes development of warfare specific mission planning modules to support unmanned systems with integration of data from environmental and tactical sensor systems, model forecast information and Geospatial Information & Services Databases. This project also supports development of autonomous environmental sensing systems for situational awareness and tactical decision aid/mission planner support, as well as iridium and advanced satellite communication integration in METOC sensor, vehicle control and mission planning systems that will be required to achieve Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) objectives for information dominance and decision superiority. Major emphasis areas include Littoral Battlespace Sensing - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV) and the Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor (ESRP) program (comprised of ESRP AFLOAT (formerly AN/SMQ-11) and ESRP ASHORE (formerly AN/FMQ-17) systems). FY2026 funding for LBS - UUV will continue to implement improvements found in the engineering studies conducted over recent years. These improvements will aid in the continued advancement of the Gliders (LBS-G) including improved electrical, software, mechanical, sensor, and/or system enhancements for Littoral Battlespace Sensing. These enhancements are critical to the sustainment and performance of LBS-G platforms in the field and meeting operational objectives FY2026 funding for ESRP will continue to support new technology assessments for ESRP modernization.

Mission — Deployable JT Command and Control source

Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) provides a self-contained, standardized, rapidly deployable, modular, scalable, and reconfigurable joint command and control (C2) capability to designated Geographic Combatant Commands (GCCs). DJC2 is the materiel solution to Defense Planning Guidance that called for the development of standing Joint Task Forces (JTFs) with a deployable C2 capability. DJC2 will ensure that Joint Force Commanders (JFC) are equipped, as well as trained and organized, to carry out their C2 responsibilities. DJC2 provides GCCs and JFCs a mission critical, integrated family of systems with which to plan, control, coordinate, execute, and assess operations. It is designed to deploy rapidly, set up within hours, and quickly provide necessary C2 mission and collaboration functionality across the full spectrum of JTF operations. The DJC2 has also been deployed in support of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) efforts. The capability is intended for all levels of conflict and will be reconfigurable to meet specific GCC and JTF mission requirements. This capability is interoperable with higher and adjacent echelons of command (to include coalition allies) as well as with supporting elements to include joint forces. FY26 funding supports development efforts for systems engineering, integration, and DJC2 Test Bed. Focus areas include emerging cyber security technologies and cloud hosting environments.

Mission — Naval Operations Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) source

Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise (NOBLE) is the logistics information technology family of systems (FoS) comprised of the Naval Operational Supply System (NOSS), the Naval Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (N-MRO), and supporting capabilities to include a common platform hosting environment and data exchange solutions, and the Logistics Integrated Data Environment (L-IDE) which supports and align readiness data systems to ensure that trusted, critical logistics data is widely available to or accessible by mission commanders, warfighters, decision-makers, and mission partners in a real-time, useable, secure, and linked manner to enable analytics, and support broader DoD/DON data efforts. NOBLE enables combat lethality by generating and sustaining Navy and Marine Corps force readiness for operational commanders afloat and ashore, providing the foundational capability to keep ships driving, planes flying, and weapons firing from an equipment Operational Availability (Ao) perspective. NOBLE is the centerpiece of the Fleet's strategic imperative to improve Sailor, unit and group maintenance self-sufficiency combat operations in a communications and access-denied arena. NOBLE's mission is to provide the Navy and Marine Corps with an integrated, scalable, and cyber-secure capability that supports the management of logistical information, material, and funds required to maintain and operate ships, submarines, and aircraft. NOBLE FoS will provide direct support to warfighter readiness with maintenance, supply, and financial capabilities, and a federated data environment to enable information integration for decision making in contested environments, and real-time data driven operational and ashore readiness analytics. These capabilities include enhanced situational awareness, planning, execution, personnel administration, and management of maintenance and supply logistics and business functions to ships/submarines, aviation squadrons, shore operational sites, and expeditionary units with a total user base exceeding 150,000. The NOBLE FoS will support Aviation and Maritime organizational, intermediate, and depot level maintenance activities and facilities. The NOBLE architecture will meet current and emerging demands for cyber security, enable Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR), drive efficiency into Navy logistics and aviation and maritime maintenance mission requirements, enable analytics, and eliminate over 700 application/database servers. NOBLE FoS will deploy to the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) afloat, Non-CANES platforms, Department of the Navy (DON) commercial cloud computing environments ashore, and US Marine Corps operating environments. The Logistics Integrated Data environment (L-IDE) will provide the single enterprise Logistics and Sustainment information domain data environment across Echelon II/III Navy System Commands to support Department of Navy (DON) Chief Information Officer (CIO) data strategy, architecture, and integration with DoD and DON level enterprise data environments in support of mission commanders, warfighters, decision makers, and mission partners.

Mission — Navy Air Operations Command and Control (NAOC2) source

Navy Air Operations Command and Control (NAOC2): NAOC2 tests and integrates U.S. Air Force program of record systems - Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) and its replacement Kessel Run Applications Kit for Enterprise Navy (KRAKEN) which provides an integrated and scalable planning system for standardized, secure, and automated decision support for Air Force, Joint, and Allied commanders worldwide - to operate in the Navy enterprise network environment such as Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES). These programs provide automated air operations planning, execution management and intelligence capabilities for fleet commanders, Commander Carrier Strike Groups, Commander Expeditionary Strike Groups, Commander Landing Forces, and Joint Task Force Commanders. KRAKEN (when fielded) will provide rapid, agile delivery of capabilities to the fleet by commercial cloud infrastructure using Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) cloud native applications. KRAKEN is comprised of multiple tactical software applications that will provide continuous iterate delivery of software to shipboard and shore users. It will also align with the Joint C2 Reference Architecture (JC2RA) such as CANES. KRAKEN is not natively compatible with Navy Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, such as CANES, and requires a significant level of system integration. Continuation of Navy integration and test efforts will significantly enhance the ability of the Joint Force Air Component Commander and Combined Air Operations Center personnel to plan daily air operations including strike, airlift, offensive/defensive air, missile defense, and refueling missions in support of combat operations. Developmental Testing is continuous and operates in parallel with the DevSecOps construct. KRAKEN will be continued for new technology insertion into Navy infrastructure network and software in support of Naval Air C2 and Net Enabled Weapons system integration. KRAKEN addresses the requirement of warfighter distributed planning and execution processes along with significantly improving Joint interoperability. TBMCS continues a hardware transition to CANES. Currently, TBMCS is the key system that is used to conduct real world air planning in the Joint and Navy environments. KRAKEN will replace TBMCS while bringing more flexibility to the war fighter. FY26 funding supports KRAKEN integration and development of Kubernetes based containers from the United States Air Force (USAF) into the CANES environment, with the development of the Commander Operational Test & Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR), USAF, and Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) joint testing and certification. FY26 funding also supports, writing automated functional evaluation tests to validate Navy requirements and automate the process of integrating the containers to work with the CANES Agile Core Services (ACS) authentication and service mesh architecture.

Mission — FORCEnet source

FORCEnet Funding supports IW Portfolio Health Assessments (PHAs) of Navy mission areas and identifies gaps in Information Warfare (IW) capabilities in the context of assessed mission areas. Funding supports vignettes, technical baselines, architecture products, and briefings developed to support sponsor decision making processes.

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