Smith, CJVenter, JP2011-12-122011-12-122011-11Smith, CJ and Venter, JP. 2011. Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability. Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 14(30, pp 1-51440-5113http://www.argospress.com/jbt/article_abstracts/14-3-2-abstract.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/5389Copyright: 2011 Argos Press.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.enNetwork enabling capabilitiesLink-ZAInteroperabilitySouth African National Defence ForceSANDFTactical Data LinksBattlefield technologyArticleSmith, C., & Venter, J. (2011). Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article]. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5389Smith, CJ, and JP Venter "Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article]." (2011) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5389Smith C, Venter J. Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article]. 2011; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5389.TY - Article 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 enabling capabilities KW - Link-ZA KW - Interoperability KW - South African National Defence Force KW - SANDF KW - Tactical Data Links KW - Battlefield technology LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 1440-5113 T1 - Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article] TI - Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article] UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5389 ER -