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TACTICOS Combat Management System

Exploiting the Full DDS Potential Piet Griffioen (piet.griffioen@nl.thalesgroup.com)
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DDS as an enabler for the success of the TACTICOS Combat Management System (CMS)

Combat Management System TACTICOS CMS Architectural principles Role of the DDS Information centric approach
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CMS
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Above Water Systems

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Communication System Platform Management System Navigation System

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3D Radar Combat Management System Multi Function Radar Missiles

Gun Sonar

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Combat Management System (CMS)

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ESM ECM COMINT

TDS SIRIUS

MIRADOR SCOUT

SMART-L

MK41

Situation Awareness Recognition & Identification Threat Evaluation Weapon Deployment

APAR

GOALKEEPER
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CHAFF GUN SONAR TORPEDO

SSM

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OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
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Vast amounts of information Thousands of tracks High degree of automation Automatic multi- sensor data fusion Automatic threat evaluation Automatic sensor + weapon pairing Extensive Command Support Easy to Operate
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Easy to Maintain Flexible in Missions, and Manning On-board Training & Simulation Total System Integration

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TACTICOS CMS
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Field proven architecture

In service since 1993 Used by 15 navies world wide 22 Ships classes from patrol boats to destroyers

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TACTICOS Architecture Concepts

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SENSORS
DUAL/REDUNDANT VIDEO NETWORK

N*multi-function consoles

Applications dynamically distributed over a Pool of Computers

FAULT TOLERANT DATA NETWORK

EFFECTORS
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Fault Fault-tolerant: Fault-tolerant: Flexible: Flexible: Evolvable: Evolvable: Scalable: Scalable:

High single -point point-of of-failure) High combat combat survivability survivability & & maintainability maintainability (no (no singlesingle-point-of-failure) MissionMission -based configuration, on -board training Mission-based configuration, onon-board training & & simulation simulation Evolutionary Evolutionary upgrading upgrading based based on on COTS COTS & & Open Open Standards Standards From patrol -boats up From patrolpatrol-boats up to to destroyers destroyers

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Fully Distributed Architecture

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IFF

LINK 11 SRBOC VESTA

CATV BUS

TDLPP

VEX/ RCP

BTS OSD

BTS OSD

ATM NETWORK VIDEO INTERFACE CABINET VCR 1/2 SPARE FL. DECK TV CAMERA TV CAMERA WORKSTATION 01 15 COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER DEPARTMENT OFF. / OFF. QUARTERS ETC. WORKSTATION M 15 15 15 STAFF ROOM PIOD / PTSU PRINTERS BRIDGE COMMS ROOM LARGE SCREEN DISPLAY 1

LARGE SCREEN DISPLAY 2

COTS & SIGMA TYPE PROCESSOR

TORPEDO WEAPON SYSTEM MK32 MOD-9 (MK46) INTEGRATED MACHINERY CONTROL SYSTEM CCC1 CCC2

GIC127

MICMK41

MICMK41

COMMS NETWORK

ATAS

SPHERION + XBT / XSV + SURF. TEMP. REC.

HARPOON

GUN 127 MM

30 MM GUNS OFF LINE

MK41 SM2 LAUNCHER

GOALKEEPER

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Distributed Distributed Processing Processing Distributed Distributed Sensor Sensor & & Weapon Weapon Interfaces Interfaces Distributed Distributed Sensor Sensor Weapon Weapon Deployment Deployment
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Fully Distributed Processing

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SENSORS
REDUNDANT VIDEO NETWORK

Software freely distributed over a pool of N x Multifunction Operator Ope rator Consoles
REDUNDANT DATA NETWORK

EFFECTORS
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No single point of failure N - fold redundancy High combat survivability

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3 Tier Architecture
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Sensors & Actuators

RT

Business Logic
nRT Dependability High availability

User Interface
Platform independency

Data Correlation Fusion Hypothesis testing

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Information

DDS Information Backbone

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Metrics Overview
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SMART-L

APAR

KH/SCOUT NAV. RADAR

HELI APPR. RADAR

VESTA

OFF LINE R/S APECS-3 ESM / ECM

SIRIUS

TDS (2x)

POS

SYSTEM SHIPS REF. IRC

IFF

LINK 11

SRBOC
VESTA TDLPP VEX/ RCP BTS OSD BTS OSD

CATV BUS

ATM NETWORK
VIDEO INTERFACE CABINET VCR 1/2 SPARE FL. DECK TV CAMERA TV CAMERA 15 WORKSTATION 01 15 DEPARTMENT OFF. / OFF. QUARTERS ETC. WORKSTATION M 15 15 COTS & SIGMA TYPE PROCESSOR PIOD / PTSU PRINTERS LARGE SCREEN DISPLAY 1 LARGE SCREEN DISPLAY 2

COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER

STAFF ROOM

BRIDGE

COMMS ROOM

TORPEDO WEAPON SYSTEM MK32 MOD-9 (MK46)

INTEGRATED MACHINERY CONTROL SYSTEM CCC1 CCC2

GIC127

MICMK41

MICMK41

COMMS NETWORK

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ATAS

SPHERION + XBT / XSV + SURF. TEMP. REC.

HARPOON

GUN 127 MM

30 MM GUNS OFF LINE

MK41 SM2 LAUNCHER

GOALKEEPER

Data Data-traffic: Data-traffic: Programs: Programs: Accuracy: Accuracy:

4.000 system -data bus 4.000 publications publications per per second second over over the the systemsystem-data bus 2.200 2.200 programs programs allocated allocated over over 150 150 processors processors 100 time -alignment accuracy 100 us. us. timetime-alignment accuracy within within the the distributed distributed system system

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Metrics: Code & Re-usability

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Application Groups
Ta ct ica lD isp lay Lo gg ing & Re pla Of y fic e & W eb su pp Tr or ain t ing & sim ul

Ai rC on tro l Na vig at io n Ta ct ica ld at a lin Co ks m m an d Su pp or t

Na va lG un fire

W ar far e

Product-line approach: total 6 Mln. LOCs HCI = C (X/Motif) Java, Ada Java generic-parts re-use: 95 % backwards-compatibility: 99%

Sy ste m

Generic InfraInfra-Services
Languages Data-access Frameworks

UI -

Generic high-level services 1 Major release/yr, 3 patch-releases/yr No project/customer-specific releases

M an ag

to ol kit s

Splice-1 -> SpliceDDS -> OpenSplice

Middleware (OMG(OMG-DDS)
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RT-embedded

SOLARIS

PC/Linux

OS
realtime Non-realtime

Applications are unaware of OS & HW Major technology upgrades: every 2 yr

94: SparcEngine 1E (SPARC) 96: CPU2CE (microSparc-I) 98: CPU5V (microSparc-II) 00: Workstations (UltraSparc) & PPC (IO) 02: Sparc/Solaris, PPC/vxWorks 04: PC/Linux

Networking
embedded workstations Mobile/PC

Hardware

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Role of the DDS

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Focus is on information
Thats the stable factor

Provides scalability
Through publish - subscribe

Provides a database view with fast and efficient access to the data
Track database with keyed data types, queries & filters

Provides tuneable data transport & data storage services

Latencies, reliability, durability
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Provides logical partitioning of Publishers and Subscribers

Training & simulation

Enables replication of system state and application state

Fault tolerance & Dynamic application management
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QoS Policy Usage

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DDS QoS Policy

DURABILITY HISTORY READER DATA LIFECYCLE WRITER DATA LIFECYCLE LIFESPAN ENTITY FACTOR RESOURCE LIMITS RELIABILITY TIME BASED FILTER
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DDS QoS Policy

USER DATA TOPIC DATA GROUP DATA PARTITION PRESENTATION DESTINATION ORDER OWNERSHIP OWNERSHIP STRENGTH LIVELINESS LATENCY BUDGET TRANSPORT PRIORITY

DEADLINE CONTENT FILTERS

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QoS Policy Usage

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DDS QoS Policy

DURABILITY HISTORY READER DATA LIFECYCLE WRITER DATA LIFECYCLE LIFESPAN ENTITY FACTOR RESOURCE LIMITS RELIABILITY TIME BASED FILTER
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DDS QoS Policy

USER DATA TOPIC DATA GROUP DATA PARTITION PRESENTATION DESTINATION ORDER OWNERSHIP OWNERSHIP STRENGTH LIVELINESS LATENCY BUDGET TRANSPORT PRIORITY

DEADLINE CONTENT FILTERS NOT USED (DEFAULT VALUE)

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Dynamic Resource Management

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Bunch of Software

Architecture Model
Action State to Role mapping
Role A ACTION STATE 1 Role B Role C Role D Role E Role A ACTION STATE 2 Role F Role C Role G Role H Role I Role D ACTION STATE n Role E Role J Role K Ta sk C Ta sk D a T skB Ta sk A Ta sk E k F T as

Pool of Computers

Role to task mapping 1

Role to task mapping 2

Role to task mapping n

Task to Service mapping

ServiceA ServiceB Service C Service D ServiceE ServiceF Service G Service H

What What When When Where Where

Role Role dependant dependant Resource Resource needs needs versus versus available available resources resources
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Fault Fault detection detection & & Recovery Recovery

Functional Functional degradation degradation
Number of Operators

Software Software replication replication management management

State State replication replication & & alignment alignment

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INFORMATION-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE
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InterrogationSettings SensorSubsystem 1 ableToPerform SystemTrackInterrogationS ettings

1..n 0..1 interrogates 0..n

Information model
SystemTrack

SensorTaskType

InterrogationTaskType

D A B C D E F G H I J K L L

DDS - Information Backbone

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Z Autonomous components Interacting only with the information-bus Spontaneous: Z , Self-healing: D Redundant & Replicated: L , Y QOS-driven Data Distribution Service (reliability, persistency, latency):
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COMMON ENTITY MODEL : Deployment F124

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Design Authority Joint Program Team

Joint Government & Industry team

InterrogationSettings

SensorSubsystem 1 ableToPerform

SystemTrackInterrogationS ettings

1..n 0..1 interrogates 0..n

Common Entity Model

SystemTrack

Standards based
ATP1, STANAG, ADaTP3

SensorTaskType

InterrogationTaskType

EADS
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Raytheon

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Integration of Subsystems
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External Data Format

Adaptation (GRI) Analogue CMS Internal Data Format (CEM)

SW

Ethernet

NTDS

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SW

HDLC

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Openness: integration-capability
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SURVEILLANCE
APAR, SMART-L SMART-S, MW08, DA08 VARIANT MRR SCOUT IRSCAN ESM DR3000 SKW, SLC KH 1007 NAV RAD SPS 64 NAV RAD RACAL NAV RAD BridgeMaster E Various other NAV RAD AWS 4, AWS 5, AWS 6 Dolphin AWS 9 SPS 49 Sea Giraffe AMB TRS 3D IFF MKX/Xll (various) ESM SUSIE, APECS II ESM CUTLASS, ALTESSE INT/EXT COMMS (various)

LINK
LINK 10 LINK 11 LINK 14 LINK 16 LINK 22 (study) LINK Y LINK Y Mk2 VESTA

TRACKERS
APAR STIR STING-EO LIROD Mk2 LIOD MIRADOR

MISSILES
SSM HARPOON Exocet OTOMAT PENGUIN GABRIEL Polyphem NSM (study) RBS15 Mk3 SAM RAM Crotale BARAK SEAWOLF SADRAL VT1 SM1 and SM2 NSSM ESSM

GUNS
Guns 127mm 115mm 100mm 76mm 57mm 40mm 30mm 25mm 27mm AK630 Ak176 AK306 (study) AK230 (study) Phalanx (TN) Passive DAGAIE SAGAIE

ECM
Active EW APECS ll ECM SALAMANDRE RDF MAIGRET ECM (various)

INT/EXT comms TMX AN/SPC CASTOR Vigy (study) MSP500 (study)

SRBOC/ALEX MASS SUPER BARRICADE

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Integrated subsystems (own & 3rd party)

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Conclusions (1)
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The DDS provides the necessary non-functional properties for the TACTICOS CMS
Fault tolerance, scalability, low latency

Use of the DDS allows for dynamic resource management

State replication

The information centric approach allows for autonomous components, autonomous development and ease of integration
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