Approach to the Navy's Shipboard Nontactical ADP Program (SNAP) data communications needs
C.E. Hammons, C. R. Stewart · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1986
The ARPANET/MILNET Defense Data Network (DDN) communications link with the Shipboard Nontactical ADP Program (SNAP) computers is a research project being conducted by ORNL in support of the Navy's nontactical computing efforts. The purpose of the project is to investigate the feasibility of application of state-of-the-art (SOA) data communications techniques to the SNAP systems as deployed on board Navy ships. (Two systems have been approved - the Honeywell DPS6 family of processors known as SNAP-I and the Harris 300 series systems known as SNAP-II.) The installation of high-speed electronic computer networking capabilities has traditionally had a synergistic effect on the processing of data because operations that were previously not feasible due to data transfer logistics have become feasible. The most desirable situation would be one in which the computer networking speed and flexibility rivaled that of local computer operations. While networking of this caliber has not yet been achieved in a practical way, the advances that have been made more than offset the effort required to bring this desirable capability to SNAP.