Program Overview
TNT is collaboration between the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the Naval Post Graduate School (NPS) that conducts seven-day experiments quarterly. These experiments are designed to develop, test and evaluate, integrate, prove and improve technologies that provide warfighter communications, real time video, and biometrics information utilizing Unmanned Vehicles on land, air, and water. These experiments are conducted utilizing new or untested technologies in simulated battlefield conditions with the assistance of Special Operations Forces (SOF) operators as evaluators. Three locations have been used: Camp Roberts, CA; San Francisco Bay, CA; and Camp Atterbury, IN. Two new sites have been put into use recently: Camp Dawson WV; and Fort Hunter Liggett, CA.

TNT provides laboratories and developers of numerous technologies in multiple disciplines the chance to test and evaluate their technologies and concepts of operations in a simulated battlefield setting with Special Operations, National Guard, and Air Force personnel as evaluators. Data collection is provided by professors and students of NPS and other academic institutions worldwide. A comprehensive After Action Report (AAR) is compiled and distributed to all organizations and agencies participating in the experiments.

• Enhance SOF technological capability and satisfy operational requirements by identifying key gaps and deficiencies in capabilities and by exploring viable solutions from emerging technologies;
• Take advantage of operational experience of NPS students by encouraging thesis research on specific warfighter needs; and
• Provide unique interdisciplinary graduate education experience for NPS students and research opportunities for NPS faculty in which the latest technologies, concepts of operation, and human systems integration are evaluated in a field environment.

• Provide unique field experiment venue quarterly in which innovation and collaboration are encouraged between DoD, government agencies, industry, and universities, and in which SOF operator participation and feedback are utilized.

• Developed Light Reconnaissance Vehicle (LRV) equipment with state of the art communications and relay systems;
• Assisted in development of hand-held biometric detection tools;
• Provided environment and test facilities for development and improvement of the Cursor on Target Program;
• Developing mobile communication network that links unmanned vehicles (air, ground, water) to fixed Tactical Command centers;
• Assisted in improving optics and tactical applications of several tactical UAVs; and
• Continually making improvements in the use of biometric gathering and testing equipment that can be used by the soldier in the most austere environment.