RTPS - Khan BMS Battlefield Management System
RTPS stands for Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Protocol. A field-level look at why it matters under EW and how Khan BMS folds it into a decimal command fabric.
Eight hundred years before RTPS had a NATO STANAG, the Mongol post-rider system was already solving the underlying problem: deliver intent across a contested span faster than the enemy can react. The vocabulary changed; the geometry did not.
RTPS, expanded, is Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Protocol — Wire protocol underlying DDS, providing interoperable pub-sub over IP. RTPS is the OMG-standard wire protocol implemented by DDS vendors, enabling interoperable publish-subscribe over UDP/IP. RTPS interoperability is what makes DDS a viable open-architecture middleware rather than a vendor lock-in.
Khan BMS treats RTPS as a property of the formation, not a feature of the radio. Every node in a distributed c2 stack publishes its RTPS state to its parent tier as a signed envelope; every parent reasons about RTPS the same way it reasons about fuel, ammunition or sensor coverage.
If RTPS matters to your formation, the integration question is not whether to support it. It is how cleanly the rest of your stack survives when it is the only thing still working.