Restructuring the Navy Tactical Data System

Restructuring the Navy Tactical Data System divides the identifying system requirements into functional areas that are further subdivided into smaller independent segments called tasks. Each of the individual tasks is designed to be isolated without interdependency on other tasks. This will allow the modification or replacement of the individual tasks as operational requirements change without affecting other tasks. Each functional area will be supported by a group of tasks that meet the specified operational requirements for that function. Important to the development of the universal program library for all Navy Tactical Data System ships, is the capability to maintain a single source library of tasks written in a host transferable language and a support program that will generate a system tape when a particular NTDS ship class configuration is defined.