Command AND Control

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 DoW/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.

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 FY 2026); Capability Package Two (CP-2) meets the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in FY 2028); 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 2027, Navy Tactical Data Network (NTDN) Expeditionary work will be completed, providing CP-2 with TS/SCI network connectivity not reliant on a Point of Presence (PoP), but rather able to leverage existing SATCOM paths to disseminate P-8A sensor data.

The Tactical Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) Applications Project provides cyber secure operational effects decision aid capabilities for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters in 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.

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 ensures 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 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. FY 2027 funding supports systems engineering, integration, and DJC2 Test Bed development, focusing on emerging cybersecurity technologies, cloud hosting environments, and DON CIO requirements for zero trust, containerization, and cloud applications.

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 Command and Control (C2)Core Air. C2Core Air (when fielded) will provide rapid, agile delivery of capabilities to the fleet using Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) Web applications. C2Core Air 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). C2CORE AIR is not natively compatible with Navy Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, such as CANES, and requires 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. C2Core Air addresses the requirement of war fighter distributed planning and execution processes along with significantly improving Joint interoperability. Currently, TBMCS is the key system that is used to conduct real world air planning in the Joint and Navy environments. C2Core Air will replace TBMCS while bringing more flexibility to the warfighter. FY 2027 funding supports TBMCS 2.0 integration, development & fielding. Initial TBMCS field to Maritime Operations Centers (MOCs) in support of Fight From the MOC (FFtM). This revolutionizes Air Operation systems by using Kubernetes based containers from United States Marine Corps (USMC) using the agile process.

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). FY 2027 funding for LBS - FY 2027 Funding will be used to implement system improvements derived from engineering studies conducted over recent years. These upgrades 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 for meeting operational objectives. FY 2027 funding for ESRP will continue to support new technology assessments for ESRP modernization.

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.