Instantiation of the TADIL-A Waveform into a Software Programmable Tactical Intelligence Terminal

for situational awareness dissemination to the warfighter at both HF and UHF. With the recent addition of TADIL-A to the Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) Operational Requirements Document (ORD), it served as a test for demonstrating the ability to instantiate a legacy broadcast waveform into a software re-programmable, digital tactical intelligence terminal. Software resident in a field-proven TADIL-A Data Terminal Set (DTS) was re-written in Higher Order Language to provide operation for both HF and UHF. I. The Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) Meeting the warfighter’s need for timely, secure, tactical intelligence and targeting information, the Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) [1] provides a high-performance, software-programmable radio, with modular functionality that is both backward and forward compatible with the migration of the Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS). The JTT program provided the first truly scaleable, flexible, open-architecture, software digital radio to bring integrated tactical and intelligence broadcasts into the next millennium. The JTT provides critical data links to battle managers, intelligence centers, air defenders, fire support elements, and aviation nodes across all services and aboard airborne, sea-going, subsurface and ground mobile mission platforms. The JTT allows each warfightin