Shipboard Logistic Data Communication Study for SNAP II Program. Part 1.

The Shipboard Non-tactical ADP Program II SNAP II is intended to modernize and expand the non-tactical automatic data processing capability afloat. SNAP II system is planned to be installed aboard approximately 450 surface ships and submarines between FY 1980 and FY 1985. In order to plan and properly implement the SNAP II capability aboard ship, the internal and external logistic data communication channel requirements must be adequately defined. SAI Comsystems defined the SNAP II logistic data communications channel requirements in a two part final report. Part 1 provides the current and near term logistic data communications channel requirement for the SNAP II nucleus system. This study identifies the logistic data and provides a quantifiable assessment of the volume of logistic data communicated off the SNAP II ships, based on the current functional reporting requirements of the off ship users. This report establishes the SNAP II baseline for shipboard logistic data communication requirements.