Provision of Link 16 and Network Design Training for UK JDLMO

The UK Joint Data Link Management Organisation (JDLMO) is the sole UK authority on the planning, design, coordination, management and execution of data links activities in support of National, NATO and Coalition operations within the UK and Out of Area. To deliver these outputs the JDLMO is dependant on extremely specialized and highly qualified staff within the data link domain. To ensure that its personnel have these necessary skill sets the JDLMO provides a variety of trg tailored to meet its particular requirements.

• The up to 27 days/yr is expected to be split as follows:

o 1x 15 day course split into 2 distinct areas: 3 Days Link 16 Intermediate Refresher (IR) training followed by a 12 day Data Link Manager/Interface Control Officer (DLM/ICO) training to include Network Design, Planning and Management training.

o Additionally up to 12 days training to be used at the authorities' discretion to cover subjects including, but not limited to, in depth Network Design training, in depth JREAP training suited to the software used on the JREAP Common Access Point (CAP) once in service and in depth Variable Message Format (VMF) training.