The French Navy is deepening its ability to share tactical situational awareness data via its Naval Cooperative Surveillance initiative.
The Veille Coopérative Navale (VCN/Naval Cooperative Surveillance) system is a communications protocol which allows surface combatants to share their Recognised Air and Maritime Pictures (RAP/RMP) with each other across a task force.
Presently Tactical Datalinks (TDLs) such as NATO’s Link-11 and Link-16 allow the sharing of track and tactical information across these respective two megahertz/MHz to 29.9MHz/225MHz to 399.975MHz and 960MHz to 1.215 gigahertz/GHz networks, but not the sharing of the actual RAP/RMP.
The VCN will offer three advantages: Vessels on
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The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.
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