Overview.

The core MINTACS software consists of twelve applications covering all aspects of naval mine warfare. These applications are:

1. Main Menu
2. Mission Manager
3. Tactical Display
4. Operational Area Manager
5. Schedule
6. Signals Manager
7. Narrative
8. MW Intell
9. Mine Hunting Planning
10. Mine Sweeping Planning
11. Clearance Diving Planning
12. MCD Gaming

There are also six specialist applicaation which are provide to specific customers as required. These application are;

1. Sea Training
2. Operational Support - Position Accuracy
3. Operational Support - Track Keeping
4. Operational Support - Detection Probability
5. Dive (decompression) Table Planning
6. Calculator EOD Calculator

Main Menu
The Main Menu provides an interface to the MINTACS suite of applications, organising the system functions in a logical and coherent structure and controlling user access to all modules.

Mission Manager
Mission Manager provides the ability to plan and make decisions based on a selected appreciation process (currently either JMAP or MWAP or a subset of one or the other).

Tactical Display
The Tactical Display provides the ability to view, maintain, query, and report MCM Operational information. The application features a graphical / chart display in both raster and vector formats. On this chart background are superimposed mine warfare Tactical Features including Q-Routes, Segments, Minefields, Mine (Finds, Lays), Clearance Diver Search Areas, Assets, Tasks, Other Tactical Features (Points, Lines, Polygons).

Mine Warfare Data Centre (Operational Area) Manager
The MWDC Manager creates and maintains the Operational Areas used by the Tactical Display, including area definition, chart information, other layer information and display defaults. Manages the Route Survey information including Contacts.

Schedule
The Task Scheduling application provides users with a visual interface through which they can manage scheduling for MCM assets.
The user assigns assets to specific MCM tasks and then manipulates durations, start/end times, and status information for those tasks. The software manages the calculations required for shifting dates and times whilst maintaining duration, checking for overlaps of tasks within a single asset, and creating new start and end times for a task based on a change in the duration of the task.
The user can view those tasks by “Asset”, “Segment”, and “Task” information, and can customise the views by sorting on the different attributes of those tasks. The information used in the schedule module is shared with the tactical display.

Narrative
The Operations Narrative application provides a log of all important events occurring during an Operation.
Log events are either created automatically (asset movements, mine finds / status updates, start/finish of serials) by MINTACS or entered directly by the user. Automatically logged information incudes the event originator, type, time and description and appears in the log every minute.

MW Intelligence
The Intelligence application provides for the maintenance, use and reporting of mine and mine countermeasures intelligence information such as mining threats, mine characteristics, environmental information outside the Australian region, and the mining and MCM capabilities of other nations.

Signals Manager
The Signals Manager application permits the user to generate mine warfare related signals (including header) based on APP and ACP / formats, and to manage and view previous messages (incoming and outgoing). Messages may be filtered and sorted on any field including header fields eg TO, FM, Classification etc.
The Signals Manager application has the ability to log all signals, and allows the user to check-off the signals that have been actioned and to make additional notes with regard to their actioned status.

Mine Hunting Planning
The Mine Hunting Planning application provides the Mine Warfare planner with an estimate of the mine location results that can be achieved for a route Segment given an initial set of mission parameters.

Given these inputs, the application calculates the tracks required (for automatic calculation of tracks), the time to be spent in locating the mines or the location percentage achieved (average and minimum) in a given time, and the number of runs per Track

Mine Sweeping Planning
The Mine Sweeping Planning application provides the Mine Warfare planner with an estimate of the mine clearance results (number of runs, runs per Track and clearance probability) that can be achieved for a route Segment given an initial set of mission parameters.

Clearance Diving Planning
The Clearance Diving Planning application provides the Mine Warfare planner with an estimate of the mine clearance results that can be achieved by a Clearance Diving team for a route Segment given an initial set of mission parameters.
Clearance diving planning is very similar to that for minehunting, with the difference that Lanes rather than Tracks are created or used, and some diver-specific input information is required.

MCD Gaming
The MCD Gaming application is a gaming simulation to support both Training and Course of Action Analysis.