Networked enabled combat for the enhancement of the underwater common operating picture

Defence R&D Canada - Atlantic's Networked Underwater Warfare technology demonstration project is conducting a trial to investigate the potential for enhanced effectiveness in producing an underwater common operating picture under field conditions. The trial consists of nodes including ships, aircraft, submarines and additional reach back to shore support centres. The trial objectives are threefold; as a vehicle to develop fusion technologies, as a means to improve underwater warfare effectiveness and to demonstrate that faster formation of the underwater common operating picture can be produced using networked shared information. One of the products that has been developed is the Networked Enabled Combat System (NECS).