Daniel Herring

The Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) is a new power system architecture, developed to meet DoD and industry needs. TMS offers unique features that address challenges faced by existing power systems.

DDS provides resilient and secure publish/subscribe communications for TMS. The author, Daniel Herring has used DDS for 14 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and shares some experience on what DDS enables and how DDS can be introduced to other organizations.

Overview of the work of the Tactical Microgrid Standards Consortium (TMSC) to develop a Tactical Microgrid Standard.

TMSC is a collaboration of US Army Corps of Engineers, US Army C5ISR, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Schweitzer Engineering, and Humber-Garick Consulting Engineers. 

This work is being adopted by US Army PM E2S2 and US Marine Corps, and many other industrial and government organizations.

The TSM standard uses DDS for the data-modeling, the databus communication, and security.