NAPPIC

The National Aerospace Planning Process Integration Capability (NAPPIC) hosts the aerospace mission collect/plan/task/execute/assess processes of Canada’s Air Force. NAPPIC replaced capabilities previously delivered by the Theatre Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) at 1 Canadian Air Division Headquarters (1 Cdn Air Div HQ) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in July 2010. It is used within the Combined Aerospace Operations Centre (CAOC) and at Air Force units across Canada including Air Component Coordination Elements (ACCE), wings and squadrons. NAPPIC interfaces with the Canadian Air Force Request for Effects (RFE) system and Airlift Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS) to provide seamless data flow through the NAP process. NAPPIC also has the capability to interface with Canada’s Command View C2 system to provide real-time strategic and joint situation awareness of Air Force operations.

Comprehensive Mission Planning

• Comprehensive hierarchical strategic planning support with mission linkages and including AOD creation/management
• Intuitive pairing of C2 missions to tasked missions
• Full task management tools including mission templates, packages, copy from ABP and MAAP Briefing auto-generation
• Flexible mission planning support with air location, ground alert, wide area geographic, reconnaissance, command and control and direct attack mission types.
• Intuitive tanker planning and management tools supporting tanker pairing and refueling contracts

Visualize the Mission

• Mature execution management capability including mission state/status monitoring, mission re-planning, spins publishing etc.
• Live display of approved mission requests from the RFE database and many-to-many pairing of mission requests to missions
• Comprehensive airspace creation, deconfliction, management and ACO generation tools
• Efficient ATO production and publishing through a dedicated management interface

Dynamic Information Sharing

• Full FrOB/EnOB database query, visualization and management including ABP, configurations, components, resources, profiles, C2 agencies, TAC Info, operating locations and taskable units
• Dynamic web client providing execution functionality for wings and units including management of unit and operating location status, targeting views, documents and reports
• Import of airlift missions from DSS including new, update and delete actions
• Robust TBMCS interoperability including full USMTF 2000/2004 compliance
• Robust intelligence/target management with MIDB 2.1 interface

NAPPIC has the following capabilities:

NAPPIC is a core part of Canada’s Air Force Tactical Network and is a key component of the Air Force Command and Control Information System (AFCCIS). In the years ahead, core functionality will be further enhanced and additional capabilities will be added to comprehensively support Canadian Air Force operational processes. NAPPIC will integrate with unit level and tactical C2 systems and will provide increasing transparency at strategic levels. NAPPIC is built on the proven WebTAS/C2Core platform and is derived in-part from the Strategic Worldwide Integration Capability (SWIC) product.