EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- An Air Force aerial networking capability highlighted the 96th Test Wing’s Emerald Flag 24-3 last month.
Phalanx Griffon’s Emerald Flag demonstration showcased an aerial networking architecture using a transfer cross domain solution to enable software defined networking, comms orchestration, and content routing across multiple levels. Emerald Flag was a kickstart to understanding the Phalanx Griffon’s capability needs and how to scale the solution in appropriate form factors going forward.
Phalanx Griffon is an aerial networking system of systems that provides advanced communications between tactical data links, as well as the ability to move data between different levels of security for those message sets.
Emerald Flag is a multi-domain large force test series that began in 2020. It is designed to enable the next generation of data-driven decisions at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels and bring combat capability to warfighters.
The test events take advantage of the unique resources and expertise of the Emerald Coast test community and associate organizations to accomplish complex, integrated test. The focus is given to system-of-systems that support the Air Force’s operational imperatives, while still providing a venue for developmental programs and experimentation that can capitalize on shared resources, an operational environment, and early integration with other key programs, according to Lt. Col. Jacob Rohrbach, 40th Flight Test Squadron deputy commander and Emerald Flag director.
“The communication layer provided by Phalanx Griffin enabled the kill chain mission scenarios to be evaluated in an operationally representative architecture,” Rohrbach said.