Tactical Data Fabric

Definition

A tactical data fabric is the distributed data plane that connects sensors, decision services, and shooters. It provides discovery, addressing, transport, security, and policy enforcement, and is the substrate every JADC2-aligned C2 service rides on. ABMS dataONE and the Navy's overmatch fabric are reference instances.

Reference attributes

Functions

Discovery, transport, security, policy

Reference instances

ABMS dataONE, Project Overmatch fabric

Related terms

• Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)
  U.S. Air Force JADC2 implementation centered on data fabric and edge compute.
• Data Distribution Service (DDS)
  OMG real-time publish-subscribe middleware standard widely used in defense.
• Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
  Security model that authenticates and authorizes every request regardless of network location.