MilSOFT’s TDL Achievement at CWIX 2014
Turkish Navy and MilSOFT participated in CWIX exercise held in Poland in June 2014 to perform Link 16 and Link 22 interoperability tests with other NATO nations. MilSOFT has developed Link 11/16 and Link 11/22 data link systems for Turkish Navy. Mil-DLP is a reliable and comprehensive solution, which benefits from TuN R&D Center experiences through collaboration in SSM/Turkish Navy. Link 11/16 system has been fielded on Ex-Perry Class frigates & Turkish National Corvets (MILGEM) and it has been operational since 2012. MilSOFT is also providing Link 11/22 data link system for Turkish Navy New Type Submarine and the Factory Acceptance Test of the system has been completed successfully. During CWIX 2014, MilSOFT and Turkish Navy demonstrated these two data link systems and performed 175 tests successfully with other nations including MLST3 which is the certification tool for TDL . As a result of those tests, MilSOFT’s TDL systems are proven to be compliant to NATO standards and interoperable with other nations’ TDL systems. The outstanding success of the MilSOFT has attracted interest of other CWIX participants and visitors as well.
CWIX : NATO Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise
CWIX is an annual event held in NATO Joint Force Training Center premises in Poland. The primary goal of this event is to validate and improve the interoperability of NATO and national Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. CWIX meets a broad spectrum of interoperability testing requirements. The systems demonstrated at CWIX represent current, near-term, future or experimental capabilities of the Alliance. CWIX participants can perform nation to nation or nation to NATO capability tests in order to assess interoperability issues of their systems.
MilSOFT’s Data Link Processor (Mil-DLP)
MilSOFT has developed Data Link Processor which provides the data link capability to share tactical information with other Link 22, Link 16, Link 11 capa-ble platforms. Mil-DLP is available both for C2 and non-C2 platforms. Mil-DLP communicates with Combat Manage-ment System (CMS)/Mission Computer(MC) by using a normalized message structure for Link 11, Link 16, and Link 22. This normal-ized interface is inde-pendent from a specific link and isolates CMS/MC from data link spe-cific data structures and protocols. The sys-tem design of MilSOFT Data Link Processor provides a cost effective
solution for advanced tactical data link capa-bility with minimum modification for legacy systems (modernization projects) and seamless advanced tactical data link capability for new Combat Management Systems and Avionic Mission Computers. Mil-DLP also contains some additional prod-ucts which can be de-livered together with the data link processor such as Link Consoles enabling full operations of TDL, JREAP (Joint Range Extension Appli-cation Protocol) and SIMPLE (Standard In-terface for Military Platform Link Eval-uation) extensions.
Mil-DLP Interoperability Tests at CWIX 2014
MilSOFT Software Technologies has been working on Tactical Data Link solutions for Turkish Navy since 2006. They have fielded first national ly produced Link 11/16 system onto Ex-Perry Class frigates on 2012. MilSOFT’s extensive effort to-wards developing high quality TDL solution and close coopera-tion with Turkish Navy have led to successful completion of TDL projects. Mil-DLP provides full compatibility to STANAG 5516 (Edition 5/6), STANAG 5511 (Edition 8), STANAG 5522 (Edition 4) and STANAG 5616 (Edition 5/6), including related Data Link Change Proposals (DLCPs -Foxtrot versions). Dur-ing CWIX 2014, MilSOFT and Turkish Navy performed 175 interoperability tests with other nations’ systems such as Polish PAFLINK16, Danish C-Flex, Finnish MULTILINK & SEALION, Italian JMTDL & GWLFD and
NATO ACCS. These interoperability tests have shown that Mil-DLP is fully compliant with NATO STANAG documents and it covers the most extensive set of TDL message capa-bilities. During the exercise, the level of knowledge and experience of MilSOFT engineers and Turkish Navy officers on Tactical Data Links were much appreciated by CWIX participants and visitors.
