Smith, CJVenter, JP2011-12-012011-12-012011-11Smith, CJ and Venter, JP. 2011. Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability. Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MilCIS 2011), Canberra, Australia, 8-10 November 2011http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5355Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MilCIS 2011), Canberra, Australia, 8-10 November 2011In the scope of Tactical Data Links (TDL), the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) started the journey to establish a national TDL capability with the commencement of their national Strategic Defence Procurement Packages (SDPP) in 1999. These procurement packages saw the development of fighter, helicopter, frigate and submarine platforms with requirements for TDL capabilities. In this, the SANDF pursued the development of an indigenous TDL data model and data transfer protocol standard appropriately named Link-ZA. This paper expands on the implementation evolution and challenges of the standard over the last 10 years and provides a generic TDL Capability Model with a strategy for establishing interoperability between different implementations of the standard, thus establishing a SANDF tactical Network Enabled Capability.enNetwork enabled defenceTactcial data linksMilitary communicationsSANDF tactical data link networkSANDFMilCIS 2011Conference PresentationSmith, C., & Venter, J. (2011). Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability. MilCIS 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5355Smith, CJ, and JP Venter. "Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5355Smith C, Venter J, Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability; MilCIS 2011; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5355 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Smith, CJ AU - Venter, JP AB - In the scope of Tactical Data Links (TDL), the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) started the journey to establish a national TDL capability with the commencement of their national Strategic Defence Procurement Packages (SDPP) in 1999. These procurement packages saw the development of fighter, helicopter, frigate and submarine platforms with requirements for TDL capabilities. In this, the SANDF pursued the development of an indigenous TDL data model and data transfer protocol standard appropriately named Link-ZA. This paper expands on the implementation evolution and challenges of the standard over the last 10 years and provides a generic TDL Capability Model with a strategy for establishing interoperability between different implementations of the standard, thus establishing a SANDF tactical Network Enabled Capability. DA - 2011-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Network enabled defence KW - Tactcial data links KW - Military communications KW - SANDF tactical data link network KW - SANDF KW - MilCIS 2011 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 T1 - Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability TI - Case study: development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5355 ER -