Length: 2 Days
Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) Training
Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) is an essential part of the modern defense and military landscapes, in no small part because of the way it satisfies the Department of Defense’s Airborne Networking requirements.
That particular DoD directive outlines a strong need for how the three segments of the DoD Global Information Grid — space, airborne and terrestrial — communicate with one another via IP-enabled network nodes.
The architecture of the technology itself is based largely on the Joint Airborne Network-Tactical Edge document, also referred to as the JAN-TE, which was based on the Time Sensitive Target Networking Technology requirements of the Tactical Data Link Transformation Capability Document.
A major benefit of TTNT (Tactical Targeting Network Technology) comes by how data is prioritized during transmission.
The advanced statistical priority-based multiple access protocol (SPMA) of TTNT is employed to make sure that critical data is always sent first and that all lower priority data is held off from transmission until absolutely needed.
Additional benefits of TTNT include a strong “anti-jam” performance feature that is of particular use in a contested environment using a multi-hop relay and automatic routing to extend beyond the line-of-sight, along with the fact that the platform itself allows for the simultaneous transmission and receipt of up to four different data streams at any given time.
TTNT also allows for the instant and secure sharing of the aforementioned types of voice, video and data transfer rates at speeds of up to Mach 8 – or roughly 6138 miles per hour.
This again would be very beneficial in a situation where high speed aircraft are engaged in secure communications with one another, even if they were going in different directions.
The connection itself is also “self-forming” and “self-healing.” That means communicating platforms/users can automatically join and leave the network without any type of advanced planning, which can be a hurdle for the use of other types of networking options.
Such network access is very beneficial for situations where multiple aircraft might be in communication with each other, as well as with crews on the ground.
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Applications supported by TTNT technology include:
- Standard internet-based communications techniques such as email, internet chat, and internet access for aircraft that were already in the air.
- Voice over internet protocol (VoIP), which transmits voice information over a data connection as an alternative to traditional telephone service.
- Support for the transmission of still images from both an aircraft to users on the ground, as well as from users on the ground to an in-flight aircraft.
- Support for the transmission of streaming, full-motion video from airborne aircraft to users on the ground.
- Enabling sophisticated aircraft procedures, such as implemented by the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) and the Automated Aerial Refueling System (AARS).
Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) Training Course by Tonex
TTNT Training, Tactical Targeting Network Technology Training covers all aspects of Department of Defense (DoD)’s TTNT waveforms for use in air-to-air networks of high-speed aircraft. Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) represents a secure, robust and low latency IP-based TDL waveform delivering the fastest ad-hoc mesh network to the tactical edge patented by Rockwell Collins.
Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) is a proprietary waveform technology based on the Joint Airborne Network-Tactical Edge (JAN-TE) capabilities derived from
the Time Sensitive Target Networking Technology (TSTNT) requirements of the Tactical Data Link Transformation (TD-L) Capability Document (CDD): need for a high throughput, anti-jam, low latency, quick net join, waveform for IP connectivity to the Global Information Grid for fast movers.
Learn about:
- Overview of Tactical Data Links (TDL)
- Comparison of TTNT, Link 16, JREAP, Link 22, VMF, SADL, and MADL
- Advanced JTRS waveform for aircraft battlefield communications
- Overview of Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT)
- TTNT Architecture and Building Blocks
- TTNT related technologies
- Basics of Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) waveform technology
- TTNT and value added principals to Link 16 and other TDLs
- TTNT operation
- TTNT radio terminals
- TTNT use cases for dynamic battlespace and networking needs of warfighters
- Time Sensitive Target Networking Technology (TSTNT) requirements Tactical Data
- Link Transformation (TD-L) Capability Document (CDD)
- Joint Airborne Network-Tactical Edge (JAN-TE) capabilities
- Tactical Targeting Network Technology on MIDS JTRS Terminals
- Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) wave form and the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS)
- Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) terminal
- Key features and benefits of Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) technology and platforms
- On-demand ad hoc IP networking
- Key principles behind TTNT secure voice, video and data
- Prioritizing traffic principles
- Principles behind Statistical Priority-Based. Multiple Access (SPMA)
- Ad-hoc Dynamic IP Networking
- IP routing and switching technologies applied to TTNT
- TTNT security features
Course Agenda
Introduction to Tactical Targeting Network Technology and Connectivity
- Overview of Tactical Data Links
- Link 4A, Link 11A/B, Link 16 and Link 22
- VMF, EPLRS, SADL, CEC, and MADL
- JREAP and Relays
- What is Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT)?
- TTNT benefits
- Network Enabled Capability (NEC)
- Waveform technologies based on the Joint Airborne Network-Tactical Edge (JAN-TE) capabilities
- Time Sensitive Target Networking Technology (TSTNT) requirements
- Tactical Data Link Transformation (TD-L) Capability Document (CDD)
- Airborne and combat networks
- Concurrent Multi-Netting (CMN)
- Concurrent Contention Reception (CCR)
- Overview of TTNT features
- Throughput, anti-jam, low latency, quick net join, waveform for IP connectivity
- TTNT waveform
- TTNT waveform integration with JTRS terminals
- TTNT Design Principles
- Enhancements to Traditional TDLs
- TTNT Networking Principles
- Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking
- TTNT Signal Structure
- TTNT Power and Transceiver
Overview of Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS)
- Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) concept Family of multi-band/multi-mode SDRs
- Communications within the 2MHz to 2GHz frequency range
- JTRS advanced waveforms
- TTNT as a dynamic, robust waveform enabling NetCentric communications
- Joint Enterprise Network Manager software
- JTRS Man-Pack Radio
- Tactical radio systems
- Situational awareness
- Tactical V/UHF airborne
- Ground V/UHF
- Satellite communications (SATCOM)
- Advanced communications
- Electronic warfare/signals intelligence (EW/SIGINT)
- Waveform design, development and sustainability
- Deficiencies in the current tactical data link systems
- Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) for JTRS
- MIDS for JTRS radios
- JTRS family of radios with TTNT waveform
- Joint Aerial Layer-Tactical Edge waveform
- JTRS features for Link 16 and TTNT host platform
- MIDS-J radio in their combat aircraft as the host for the TTNT waveform
TTNT (Tactical Targeting Networking Technology) Architecture and Protocols
- TTNT architecture and protocols
- TTNT interfaces
- TTNT as a high speed data link airborne network
- Enhancements to Traditional TDL
- No Mission Planning
- Deterministic Latency
- Priority based IP and Non-IP Interface
- Dynamic Network Management (OAM&P)
- SNMP (simple network management protocol) for Network Management (NM)
- Enhancements to Traditional TDL
- TTNT radio set physical implementations
- Principles of Software-defined radio (SDR)
- UHF Vehicular Multichannel Software Defined Radio
- TTNT operational procedures
- TTNT mobility, versatility, interoperability and exchange of information on the battlefield
- Methods to detect, track and prosecute time critical targets
- Connectivity between manned and unmanned airborne platforms and ground stations
- Standard IP for communication between platforms
- Methods to precise geolocation of the enemy target.
- Data transmission rate
- Audio and live video to control headquarters.
- Automatic ad hoc networking
- Forming a net or performing a net-entry
- Issues with network re-planning
Data Link Transceivers for TTNT
- MIDS JTRS
- TTNT vs. Link 16 and JREAP
- TTNT and existing Link-16 terminal/Multifunction Information Distribution System Low Volume Terminal (MIDS LVT)
- TTNT waveforms as software applications on JTRS radios
- TTNT frequency band analysis by application
- TTNT Porting
- TTNT Transceiver
- TTNT Ext PA
- TTNT WF
- TTNT Application data path
- Common Operational Pictures (COPs)
- Collaboration workspaces (e.g. instant messaging)
- On-demand services
- Relay IP-based layered communication
- Statistical Priority-Based Multiple Access (SPMA) protocol
- TTNT integration with Line of Sight (LOS) and Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS) communications
- Pentagon’s JTRS waveform repository
- TTNT link budget
- TTNT Signal Structure
- Hi Doppler Effect
- Frequency Allocation
- Link 16 Compatible
- Multipath Performance
- FEC Structure/Reed-Solomon Encoding
- Receive while Transmit
Principles of Ad Hoc Networking
- What is Ad Hoc networking?
- Mobile Ad Hoc networking and military communications
- Data networking, GPS, real-time video feeds, and satellite intelligence
- Mobile Network building blocks
- IP network on fixed wired infrastructure
- Mobile wireless networks
- Principles of Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET)
- MANET conventional networking solutions
- Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)
- Radio Aware Routing (RAR) family of protocols
- Applying QoS
- TTNT QoS requirements and system capacity.
- Available bandwidth, delay, or link
- Size, Weight and Power (SWaP)
- SWaP and Ruggedization
- Network solutions for the dynamic environment
- Networked airborne audio and video services
- Ad-hoc network implementation Using TTNT Radio
TTNT and Common Networking Services and Operations
- Application layer services
- Voice over IP
- Video over IP
- Airborne network vision
- The Global Information Grid (GIG)
- Emerging IP based terminals, systems, platforms, and ground sites
- Routing architecture
- Service Type and Protocols
- On-demand ad hoc IP networking
- Masterless self-healing networking capability
Internet Protocol Support (Full Stack)
- IPv4, ICMP, IGMP
- Internet Routing Unicast, Multicast, Inter & Intra domain
- QoS DiffServ, IntServ, marking, policing, admission control, shaping, scheduling
- Mobility Support Inter & Intra Domain Network
- Infrastructure Services
- DNS, DHCP, NTP, ARP
- SNMPv3
- Applications
- Position Reporting
- TTNT IP Routing Protocols
- Autonomous Systems (AS)
- OSPF
- BGP
- eBGP
- iBGP
- Airborne networks with Combat networks as separate Autonomous Systems (AS)
TTNT Network Security Features
- IP Network Security 101
- Ad-hoc IP Networking Security Requirements
- PKI Assumption
- PKI Domain Sets
- TTNT Domain Classification
- Ad Hoc PKI Connection
- Ad Hoc Certificate Validation
TTNT Cybersecurity and Mitigation
- TTNT Security 101
- Cyber Security Standards Applied to TTNT
- Building a Risk Management Program for TDLs including Link 16, JREAP, Link 22, TTNT, SADL, and MADL
- TTNT Cybersecurity Assessment with Risk Management Framework (RMF)
- TTNT Cyber Asset Identification and Classification
- Identifying Critical Cyber Assets
- Classifying TTNT Related Cyber Assets
- Identifying TTNT Security Perimeter
- Protecting TTNT, Ethernet (L2) and IP (L3) Cyber Assets
- TTNT Security-Related Roles and Responsibilities
- TTNT Policy Implementation and Enforcement
- TTNT Configuration and Maintenance
- Insecure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Risks
- TTNT Physical Security Risks
- TTNT Monitoring, Logging, and Retention
- TTNT Cyber Maintenance and Testing
- TTNT Network Connection Control
- Minimum TTNT Security Requirements
TTNT Case Studies
Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) Training