Candidate survivable transmission systems

A report is presented of a panel investigation into the operational survivability issues which confront military agencies concerned with air and space missions. Topics covered included: the survivability and reliability of critical communications systems with an assessment of whether these systems could support the ITWA (Integrated Threat Warning and Assessment) architecture through all phases of conflict and the survivability of bit-oriented cyclic redundancy-checked standard message sets. It is concluded that without a concerted effort towards developing survivable communications networks and a well-thought-out and -executed plan for attaining each support, the problem of error-filled, low-data-rate traffic overwhelming a stressed, piecemeal transmission architecture which enjoys questionable survivability and connectivity cannot be solved. It is argued that these weaknesses can be minimized by aggressively pursuing the alternatives presented