Rockwell Collins won an $18 million contract from the Air Force to complete development and qualification of the Tactical Targeting Network Technology waveform, paving the way its implementation on a broad range of aircraft, announced the company. “TTNT will provide warfighters with a higher throughput, low latency networking capability to meet the demands of new and evolving mission requirements,” said Bob Haag, Rockwell Collins’ general manager of communication and navigation products, in the company’s Dec. 17 release. That is something “the warfighter does not have today,” he added. TTNT is built to deliver high data rate, long-range communication links for airborne platforms as a complement to existing tactical data link networks, according to the release. The Pentagon has demonstrated TTNT on aircraft including the B-2, B-52, E-2C Hawkeye, E-3 AWACS, F-16, F/A-18, and F-22. (See also Raptors Test Networking, Air and Ground.)
DNI: Cyber Is The Common Weapon Among Top Adversaries
April 17, 2021
The top four U.S. adversaries--China, Russia, Iran and North Korea--are improving their military capabilities but relying increasingly on cyber means to challenge the U.S. and blunt its influence around the world, the intelligence community's annual threat assessment says. The report comes amid military tensions with both China and Russia.