Networked Tactical & Training Systems
Train as you fight,
Fight as you train
From Air Warfare Centre training to full operations
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- Air Warfare Centres
- Joint Warfare Interoperability Centres
- Large Force Exercises
- Full Operational Implementation
One environment for training and operations
Purpose-built AOC and GCI consoles, networked in real time, delivered and operational today.
Train as you fight
From two-aircraft scenarios to Large Force Exercises with hundreds of entities.
Tasking to execution
Generate ATO/ACO, send to MPS, flight simulators and mission computers.
Live, Virtual, Construct
Live radar tracks integrated with simulated tracks and simulators to generate a fully integrated operational / synthetic training environment.
NETTS
One system for training and operations
NETTS is an AOC-centric, integrated, synthetic environment with real-time networking at its core. Personnel train in their own specialties, then work together as an integrated team in an environment that emulates real-world operations.
NETTS is not only a training system. The same, networked tools integrate data links to input live radar tracks and incorporate comprehensive mission tools for a fully operational implementation. All operations and displays within NETTS can be configured to reflect the functions and Graphical User Interfaces of the actual systems in operational use. NETTS puts planners, pilots and fighter controllers at the same time in the synthetic version of the specific equipment they use. This is the true meaning of “Train as you fight, fight as you Train”.
What NETTS offers
Full mission rehearsal
One exercise covers planning, briefing, execution and debriefing. Planners watch their plan meet a reactive enemy, pilots fly it, controllers manage it live — sharpening the hand-offs and threat calls that decide engagements.
Scenario creation
Large enemy formations, surface-to-air threats, electronic warfare and contested airspace can all be staged. Fighters, AEW, tankers, ground control and allies join one exercise, each from its own site over a secure network.
Cost-effective training
Well-executed synthetic training saves aircraft hours, fuel and maintenance and removes the reliance on serviceable aircraft, good weather or available airspace.
Train on operational systems
NETTS presents information using a generic GUI or can be updated to use the same formats used operationally. Uniquely training planners, controllers and pilots on the same systems they operate.
Real-time networking
AOC-centric training and operations
The Air Operations Centre is the operational hub and NETTS recognises this. Modern technology and changes in the operational environment demand the AOC radically evolves to keep pace with emerging technologies which are changing the nature of defence. Rapid response is critical and this is driven by the AOC cycles. NETTS can be used in many environments to develop new capabilities and ways of operating as well as being at the core of both operations and training.
Digital AOC integration
- Enables a two-way flow of information
- Creates a unique environment for planners
- Plan and execute CPXs
- Plan and execute Large Force Exercises
- Conduct peacekeeping and relief operations
- Integrate the AOC with remote squadrons
- Feedback the mission to the AOC
- Deliver a faster, more accurate tempo of operations
AIR OPERATIONS CENTRE
- ATO ACO
- Flight Simulators
- NETTSYN GCI
- Live Radar Tracks RAP
- FDR Mission Debriefing
- Mission Planning System
Mission tools
A complete suite of operational applications
Every tool is developed in-house and networked across the NETTS environment, from tasking to planning to execution:
Air Tasking Order editor
Build the ATO with force composition, mission types, targets, bullseyes and rules of engagement. Validate, approve and export direct to squadrons.
Airspace Coordination Order editor
Define and publish airspace zones, entry and exit points, altitudes and coordination levels alongside the ATO.
Mission Planning System
Tasking data from the ATO and airspace information from the AOC drives communications plans, aircraft configuration, targeting, route planning, fuel planning and take-off / landing fields.
Configuration system
Readiness codes, aircraft and pilot availability, validated against mission take-off and time-on-target — conflicts flagged before they cost a sortie.
Data sovereignty
Planning support apps
NETTS includes a suite of communications apps for all planning and logistical concerns. Conversations between personnel, and the documents they work from, stay within the network — self-managed on your own IT infrastructure, in order to comply with defence data handling requirements.
Real-time chat
Direct and group messaging, with presence.
Secure email
Internal mail between roles.
Voice communications
Channels, push-to-talk and tannoy.
Document management
Shared operational documents, versioned.
Electronic warfare support
The Database Management System can stand alone or support NETTSyn. EW data is stored in a master repository, processed into mission-specific parametric libraries and accessed from live EW inputs via NETTSyn.
GCI / AEW: training and operations
Full functionality for all operational levels:
- Master Controller
- Fighter Controller
- Track Identification Officer
- Weapon Assignment Officer
- EW Officer
NETTSyn trains GCI controllers and AWACS crew as a team, with tools to support controllers in a network-centric warfare environment. Instructors can generate a scenario of just two aircraft for initial training, or hundreds of entities for advanced students, through to full Fighter Controller Instructor level.
NETTSyn can integrate tracks from radars, and sensors. In a training environment, NETTSyn generates tracks internally and integrates with simulators using DIS to create a very realistic, synthetic training environment for pilots and controllers.
Recognised Air Picture (RAP)
NETTSyn builds the RAP by integrating track inputs from radars, using our EW database to support identification.
Data links, developed and converted
NETTS is backed by experience with data link engineering, including the development of national tactical data links.
The Link Conversion Tool connects different data links without writing new software: runtime libraries convert from one format to another through a common data format: Link 11/22, Link 16, national links and sensor feeds into C2, air defence and weapon systems.
This experience includes integration of sensors with shooters, integration of tracks from multiple sources into a RAP, tactical situation assessment, threat evaluation and weapon cueing.
Live, Virtual, Construct
Live aircraft integrate with simulators and tracks generated by NETTSyn to create a unique and cost-effective LVC environment. NETTS can work in a secure, air-gapped environment or integrate with live tracks to create a unique operational training capability.
Federated simulators
NETTS can integrate with existing simulators or we can provide generic, easy-to-fly mission simulators, both fixed and rotary wing. All simulators can be networked with each other and with NETTSyn using DIS or HLA.
Summary
Live flight hours are expensive and limited. NETTS covers the repetitive and procedural training as well as operational training. Live flying is then kept for what only real aircraft can teach. The result is less wear on the fleet and fewer support assets needed. Synthetic training offers safety and the freedom to fail. Emergencies can be practised safely and edge cases can be repeated until the team gets it right, which live flying never allows. NETTS allows real tactics to be hidden and supports coalition training in Large Force Exercises. NETTS in an Air Warfare Centre allows new aircraft, weapons, radars or doctrine to be tested and rehearsed before they arrive.
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