Proposed Revision for Marine Corps Required Operational Capability (ROC) CC Number 256.4 for a Tactical Communication Center

摘要

The current tactical communication center equipment, the AN/TGC-37 and An/TYC-5A, utilize obsolete electromechanical teletypewriter equipment and other peripherals that are slow, unreliable and increasingly difficult to maintain. This equipment is too heavy for amphibious operations and subsequent movement ashore. It will not interface effectively with future digital switching and transmission systems and cannot satisfy existing and projected traffic volume requirements with an acceptable writer-to-reader time. The capability to reproduce, collate, staple, and distribute copies of received messages in a tactical environment does not exist. The capability to store messages for subsequent retransmission or transfer to another communication circuit depends upon paper tape equipment which is exceedingly slow and cumbersome to operate. Additionally, this equipment is being gradually lost through attrition and lack of replacement parts. The ability of the FMF field commander to communicate with higher,adjacent, and subordinate commands with administrative, intelligence and logistics messages is in jeopardy.