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IDLS2023 Training Day - Option 1


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The Evolution of Network Planning and Design
Presented by: Patrick Pierson
 

The processes of Multi-TDL Network Planning and Link 16 Network Design are indispensable to successful military operations. Unfortunately, new capabilities (e.g., Enhanced Throughput, Network Enabled Weapons, Integrated Fire Control, CMN-4, etc.), new waveforms (e.g., TTNT), increased demand on resources e.g., manpower, time slots, etc.), and the ever-increasing threat from near peer militaries (e.g., hypersonic weapons, drone swarms, etc.) require these processes evolve drastically and rapidly.

Advancing these activities from today’s time consuming, brain-power intensive, and largely mandraulic tasks to the near real-time, AI enabled, network configuration and reconfiguration required to support Mosaic Warfare is like going from morse code to Tik Tok. This training session will cover the Network Planning and Design processes as they exist today, the evolving threat and dynamic nature of tomorrow’s battlespace, and how these processes are evolving to meet the operational requirements of the future.

This full-day training session will cover the Network Planning and Design processes as they exist today, the evolving threat and dynamic nature of tomorrow’s battlespace, and how these processes are evolving to meet the operational requirements of the future.

Agenda
  • Network Planning Introduction
  • Network Planning Products
  • Initial Planning Process Summary
  • Information Exchange Requirements Determination
  • Connectivity Analysis
  • Multi-TDL Architecture Planning
  • OPTASK Link
  • Network Design Introduction
  • Network Design Steps
  • Participation Group Communities
  • Network Design Rules-of-Thumb
  • New Capabilities
    • Link 16 Enhanced Throughput
    • Crypto Modernization
    • Frequency Remapping
    • Concurrent Multi-Netting/Concurrent Contention Receive
    • Network Enabled Weapons
    • TTNT
  • The New Threat Environment
  • Mosaic Warfare
  • Automatic and Semi-automatic Network Planning Process, to include IER determination, connectivity mapping, and data architecture options to include relays and forwarders using an AI enabled recommendation engine.
  • Automatic and Semi-automatic Network Design.
  • Semi-automatic network plan/design validation with automatic replan/design (if required) using an AI enabled recommendation engine.
  • Potential for semi-automatic network reconfiguration to support Mosaic Warfare requirements