Maritime Tactical Command and Control (MTC2) - Software Pilot Program

Maritime Tactical Command and Control - Soft Pilot Program falls under the Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Budget Activity 8 for Software and Digital Technology Pilot Programs within the Navy. The program aims to deliver Battle Management Aids (BMA) and Maritime Planning Tools (MPT) to dynamically plan, direct, monitor, and assess maritime operations in support of Joint, Multi-Service, and Coalition Force planning. It leverages a System of Services to improve decision speed and dynamic synchronization of forces. The primary objective is to provide a suite of maritime applications that enable planning, execution, monitoring, and assessment in support of operational and tactical level of war requirements. Additionally, the program supports alignment and provides interoperability of Navy Command and Control (C2) with the Department of Defense (DoD) joint C2 way-forward.

The program's funding is intended for expenses necessary for agile procurement, production, modification, operation, and maintenance of the pilot program requirements. It supports iterative development and delivery to targeted platforms necessary for the completion of the Navy special project. This includes extended Maritime Planning Tools to support resilient Line of Sight (LoS) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLoS) communications networks as well as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) interfaces. The sustainment activities include evolutionary acquisition, program management support, training events, help desk support, software licenses procurement, and sustainment of the Program of Record instances. The program's acquisition strategy has been realigned to Operation of the Software Acquisition Pathway in FY21 to execute agile software development that is responsive to Fleet needs.