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Agenda
• Purpose
• JTNC Overview
– Organization
– Core Functions
– DoD Communications Standards Branch
• JTNC Standards Consensus Standards
• Modular Radio Architecture
• Summary
• Questions
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Purpose
• Organizational update since WinnComm 2019
• Description of the latest standards activities for the public
domain
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Command, Control, and Communications Leadership Board (C3LB)(Governance)
NAVWARSYSCOM (CompetencyAlignment)
PEO C3T (Executive and AdministrativeOversight)
Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC)
Organization
(Interim)
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JTNC Mission and Vision
(JTNC Charter - 13 Sep 2019)
Chartered Mission
“To enable the DoD’s rapid identification, characterization,
procurement, fielding, and sustainment of modular, innovative
tactical communications products that ensure secure, interoperable,
and resilient Command, Control, Communications, Computer,
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities.”
Chartered Vision
“Secure, Interoperable, and Resilient tactical communications
capabilities aligned to modular open architectures in supportof
Service, Multi-Service, and Coalition forces.”
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JTNC Core Functions*
• DoD Information Repository (IR)
– Maintain a cyber-hardened DoD Information Repository (IR) providing controlled access for proprietary and non-proprietary
waveforms
– Maintain government configuration control of assigned IR products and datadocuments
• Technical Analysis
– Perform capability characterizations/technical analyses on tactical communications products assessing the degree to
which products meet their advertised capabilities and align with DoD wireless communications, cybersecurity, and
interoperability standards andpolicies
• Open Systems Architecture Standards
– Provide expertise, configuration management, and interface development for non-proprietary open systems architecture
standards and interfaces that enable common radio, waveform, and network management functionality, and allow for rapid
integration of enhanced technology/innovativecapabilities
• Exportability Analysis & Licensing Review
– Perform analyses to determine issues affecting potential exportability of tactical communicationsproducts
– Review Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Waveform (WF) export licenserequests
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• Technical Advisor (Lead Service Initiative and
Command, Control, and Communications
Leadership Board (C3LB))
– Provide subject matter expertise on tactical communications products and/or
Joint enterprise tactical networking as requested or identified in support of
the DoD, the Services, and ProgramOffices
– C3LB participation (Tactical Communications Senior Steering Group
(TCSSG), Communications Technology and Waveform Working Group
(CTWWG), HFWG))
– Support both the Services and Principal Staff Assistant (DoD CIO) in oversight of
Lead Serviceactivities
* Ref: Documented in JTNC Charter, approved 13 September 2019
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DoD Communications Standards Branch
Purpose & Scope: Provide expertise,
configuration management, and interface
development for non-proprietary OSA standards
and interfaces that enable common radio,
waveform, and network management functionality,
and allow for rapid integration of enhanced
technology and innovative capabilities. Emphasis
on Joint Service capabilities.
Supported Efforts:
DoD
• Modular Open Systems Working Group
• DoD High Frequency (HF) Working Group
• Secure Tactical Communications –
Interoperability Specification (STaC-IS)
Industry Engagement
• SOSA and FACE™ Consortiums and Wireless
Innovation Forum (WInnF)
Key Priorities:
• Evolve, align, and promulgate open standards for the
DoD and industry (including international)
• HF Interoperability and Architecture SWG
• Lead Technical Exchange Meetings to facilitate Industry
and Government stakeholder collaboration with the
standards effort, leveraging existing forums when
possible
• Support the Lead Services in establishing and
updating policy for the implementation of common
interface standards and joint enterprise reference
architectures.
• Dynamic Spectrum Sharing API SWG
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• JTNC Standards evaluated the contributions, overlap, and
potential conflicts between multiple standards
• JTNC Standards has been working with the SOSA™ Consortium
and the US Army to refine a consistent MOSA-based Solutions
Architecture
• MRA is being refactored to produce a Waveform Card
specification – for Plug-In Card(s) (PIC) that will support the
Army’s CMOSS development efforts
Evolution of Consensus-Based
Software Defined Radio (SDR) Standards
• JTNC Standards developed a Modular
Radio Architecture (MRA) Reference
Architecture based upon lessons learned
from Software Defined Radio
(SDR) development efforts
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• Reference Architecture
− Identifies:
• Where the communication application should
reside
• Constraints the applications must adhere to
• Capabilities that the host (native) platform must provide
− Enables:
• Specification of multiple Solution Architectures (instantiations of an RA) and
families of Solution Architectures (e.g., multiple SOSA™ + CMOSS-based
implementations)
• Waveform Card Specification
− Provides:
• Open architecture specification of a waveform
that resides on a plug-in card
− Identifies:
• Interfaces and interactions between the physical card and its contained waveform
and a hosting CMOSS chassis and infrastructure
Modular Radio Architecture (MRA) Products
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JTNC Standards focuses on development &
proliferation of SDR tactical communications
solutions:
• Working to maximize reuse and repurpose of existing
standards rather than defining new standards in all cases
• Pursuing cross organizational collaboration and
coordination in order to converge Standards with
examples which align with DoD priorities:
‒ MRA (CMOSS and SOSA™ interactions)
‒ Waveform Card Specification
‒ WINNF Working Group
‒ FACE™ Working Group
‒ SOSA™ Working Group
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Questions
