| Network Centric Operations -- and the explicit need for platform inter-operability invites solutions for improved connectivity with submarines that do not limit the platforms’ inherent capabilities. Prospective connectivity solutions bring to bear associated performance parameters that include reduced communications time latencies, increased throughput and assured delivery under any submarine operating profile. Commensurate with a sub-marine’s multi-mission role and its need to be interoper-able with platforms and systems spanning the breadth of maritime environments and operational profiles – underwater, in air and in space for independent, maritime, joint and coalition operations – improved submarine communications logically suggests innovative, integrated, system solutions from a family of technologies that can satisfy these capabilities. |