It is made up of standard Message Text Formats ( MTF ) for man-readable and machine-processable information, a core set of common warfighting symbols, and data link standards called Tactical Data Links ( TDLs ).

* Tactical Data Links

* Naval Tactical Data System

* The Tactical Data Links Link 16 and Link 22

Seymour Cray was likewise chosen to be the chief designer, but he was still in the process of completing an early version of the 1103-based Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ), and he did not leave Sperry to join CDC until it was complete.

The TADIL-J message format forms the basis for the mandates in the DoD Tactical Data Link Management Plan.

* Naval Tactical Data System

The AN / USQ-17 or Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ) computer referred to in Sperry Rand documents as the Univac M-460, was Seymour Cray's last design for UNIVAC.

The AN / USQ-20, or Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ), was designed as a more reliable replacement for the AN / USQ-17 with the same instruction set.

It used the same 30-bit words and instruction set as the AN / USQ-17 and AN / USQ-20 Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ) computers, but could have two processors instead of just one.

That system was the heart of the Naval Tactical Data System which pioneered the use of shipboard computers for air defense.

MANDRIL is integrated software produced by Lockheed Martin UK IS & S Ltd ( formerly STASYS Ltd ) for the analysis of Tactical Data Links.

When informed by NASA of his selection for astronaut training, he was assigned to the test directors section of Marine Air Control Squadron 3, a unit responsible for the testing and evaluation of the Marine Tactical Data System.

* Tactical Data Link

Its specification is part of the family of Tactical Data Links.

Link 16 is intended to advance Tactical Data Links ( TDLs ) as the NATO standard for data link information exchange.

Somewhat ironically the US Navy would later decide they needed just such a system, having a rather unhappy experience with their Naval Tactical Data System in 1958.

Naval Tactical Data System, commonly NTDS, refers to a computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships.

See series Jay A. Kershaw Records, 1955-1965 including day files and memoranda related to his work as peripherals manager on the Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ) at Sperry Univac.

* First-Hand: No Damned Computer is Going to Tell Me What to DO-The Story of the Naval Tactical Data System, NTDS Chapter 1 of 9, by David Boslaugh-An account of the development of the Naval Tactical Data System, the first digitized weapon system in the US Navy.

* First-Hand: The Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Command and Control System-The First Spin Off from the Naval Tactical Data System from IEEE Global History Network.

* 203-Interoperability And Performance Standards For Tactical Digital Information Link ( Tadil ) A

* 212-Subsystem Design And Engineering Standards For Tactical Digital Information Link ( Tadil ) B

TADIL-J refers to " Tactical Digital Information Link Joint " ( TADIL ) which was used by the U. S. Navy, U. S. Army, U. S. Marine Corps, U. S. Air Force, the NSA, several NATO countries, and Japan as part of the Multi-Tactical Data Link Network ( MTN ).

Instead it has officially been replaced by the generic term Tactical Data Link ( TDL ).

Tactical Digital Information Link

NATO Link 1 is a full duplex digital data link used by NATO's Air Defence Ground Environment and one of the Tactical Digital Information Links used by NATO.

* Advanced Tactical Center, a family of software tools for computer games

In the U. S., much of the Igloo White technology came from Sandia National Laboratories, which subsequently designed the Mini Intrusion Detection System ( MIDS ) family, and the U. S. Marine Corps's AN / GSQ-261 Tactical Remote Sensor System ( TRSS ).

* Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, a future American family of light wheeled vehicles

Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems or JINTACCS is a United States military program for the development and maintenance of tactical information exchange configuration items ( CIs ) and operational procedures.

The Steyr TMP ( Tactical Machine Pistol ) is a 9 mm blowback-operated, rotating-barrel weapon that is 282 mm long and that can fire 800 – 900 rounds per minute ; despite its small size, lack of a stock, and the fact that it is called a " tactical machine pistol ", it is often classed as a compact submachine gun.

Tactical communications are communications in which information of any kind, especially orders and decisions, are conveyed from one command, person, or place to another within tactical forces.

Tactical communications do not include communications provided to tactical forces by the Defense Communications System to non-tactical military commands, and to tactical forces by civil organizations.

Patton's armored divisions made frequent use of tactical fighter-bombers of the XIX Tactical Air Command of the Ninth Air Force to protect his right ( southern ) flank during his advance to the Seine.

On 1 September 1982, the headquarters of the 602nd Tactical Air Control Wing ( TAIRCW ) and its subordinate 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron ( TASS ), a unit responsible for the Air Force's tactical air control system west of the Mississippi River transferred from Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, and stood up at D-M, bringing 16 OA-37B aircraft and numerous new personnel to the base.

Tactical intelligence is focused on support to operations at the tactical level, and would be attached to the battlegroup.

* NTOA. org The National Tactical Officers Association, a national organization of tactical professionals.

* ITOTA. net The International Tactical Officers Training Association, an international organization of tactical professionals

Unlike the military, whose aircraft are not always in the same location as the tactical operators, the HRT ’ s Tactical Helicopter Unit is literally right out the front door from the HRT central command.

The Desert Air Force ( DAF ), also known chronologically as Air Headquarters Western Desert, Air Headquarters Libya, the Western Desert Air Force, and the First Tactical Air Force ( 1TAF ), was an Allied tactical air force initially created from No. 204 Group under RAF Middle East Command in North Africa in 1941 to provide close air support to the British Eighth Army.

Tactical diving is a branch of professional diving carried out by armed forces and tactical units.

SHAEF also controlled substantial naval forces during Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Overlord, and two tactical air forces: the US Ninth Air Force and the RAF Second Tactical Air Force.

Tactical Recognition Flash of the Royal SignalsThe Corps wears a blue and white tactical recognition flash.

* Standardized Tactical Entry Point, to extend DISN services into the tactical theater to provide initial connectivity between the deployed warfighter and sustaining base

* Tactical and Operational Modeling: This uses the same approach as for strategic modeling, but focuses on tactical business units-expanding into tactical attribute detail and later operational attribute detail for physical database generation and installation.

The former RAF Second Tactical Air Force ( 2TAF ) was one of three tactical air forces within the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) during and after the Second World War.

In addition, the attached Tactical Air Command 47th Bombardment Wing flew B-45 Tornado and B-66 Destroyer tactical bombers from RAF Sculthorpe and RAF Alconbury.

By 1955, SAC no longer needed its fighters and these fighter units were transferred to Tactical Air Command and utilized in a tactical role.

In December 1974, the Twenty-Second Air Force absorbed Tactical Air Command's Twelfth Air Force C-130 Hercules tactical airlift operations.

The " Tactical E-grip " improves upon the " tactical " look by adding an E-grip ( electronic firing ).

The RAF Third Tactical Air Force ( Third TAF ), which was formed in South Asia in December 1943, was one of three tactical air forces formed by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.