ComLINK

RSI’s Data Link Communications, Forwarding and Display System (ComLINK) is an off-the-shelf PC based system supporting the tactical data link communications and data translation/forwarding mission for allied armed forces around the world. ComLINK is currently in use in England, Germany and Poland. ComLINK is highly configurable by utilizing RSI’s Operational Core user interface package and then layering multiple tactical data link interfaces from RSI’s Interface Package Library (IPL). New customer application-specific requirements are easily accommodated.

ComLINK is a turn-key, PC based data link communications display system that uses ruggedized, commercial off-the-shelf hardware configurations for enhanced reliability and durability. ComLINK allows direct participation and monitoring of all configured data links as well as data forwarding and data translation from one link format and protocol to another. ComLINK creates tracks in its track database from received track messages and operator entered (voice told) tracks. External interfaces configured into the ComLINK independently scan the track database both on a periodic and on-demand basis to generate the appropriate messages and operator alerts for each object. Message generation and processing is based on the requirements of the associated specification for each configured external interface (e.g. MIL-STD-6016B). Data received over a configured external interface is validated for errors and processed for automatic link responses (R shifts, ID conflict processing, command processing, etc.), Presentation of data in hook readouts, real-time data reductions, and automatic alerts. Non-periodic, non-automatic message traffic is generated in response to operator actions as well as in response to received messages.