U.S. Navy Damage Control Communications

Tactical Communications

In early 2008, CoCo Communications Corp. (CoCo) was asked to assist in improving Damage Control Communications onboard U.S. Navy ships during emergencies. The CoCo solution was used to successfully complete the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Damage Control Communications Experiment FY08 and FY09.

The goals in 2008 were:
Interoperable voice communication between ship board WIFCOM LMR, PDA Communicators, and the U.S. Navy fleet.
Voiceless communications via soft button status messages to be displayed remotely throughout the ship and the fleet over a military accepted encrypted network.

After successful testing in 2008, CoCo was requested to expand on those requirements in 2009 to include portable cameras, integrated soft buttons and voice functionality that included an easy display of that information anywhere throughout the ship or fleet.

To complete these requirements CoCo expanded its CoCo® Communicator application. CoCo Communicator is a voice, video, and data softphone application designed for easy use on PDAs and PCs in mobile or tactical environments. CoCo created two custom applications that were integrated into CoCo Communicator:

  • DC Datalink (Damage Control Datalink) - Simultaneous video streams from fixed cameras and CoCo Communicator PDAs are seen by the DC Datalink application located in DC Central (onboard ship) and on shore at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC.
  • DC Comms (Damage Control Communications) - Soft buttons allow users to provide text based checklist status updates back to DC Central to augment voice and video communications.

Damage Control

Click Here to Download The CoCo Damage Control Communications Solution Sheetadobe

Click Here to Download The Official Technology Report From The Department of The Navyadobe