Towards automatic implementation of TDL systems

Military operations heavily rely on tactical data links to exchange command and control data allowing participants to gain an understanding of the operational situation. Since today most operations involve multiple nations cooperating on a mission these tactical data links are standardised e.g. as a NATO STANAG. However these standards are very complex and regularly updated to reflect technological advances. Therefore implementing TDL systems adhering to these standards is a very complex and error prone process. By supporting a NATO group developing an XML implementation of TDL standards and providing a toolset to implement a multi TDL capable system configured using these XML-TDL-specifications, the authors demonstrate how to shorten this process and allow for a completely automated implementation of TDL-STANAGs.