Military
Army’s New “Smart Radio” May Revolutionize Communications
Armed with Science reports engineers with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy are working to build a so-called “universal radio” test-bed this year in Fort Monmouth, N.J. They hope to open the gates of “cognitive radio” development to academia, private industry and other Defense Department organizations.
The Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) is creating [...]
German Forces Trust in Thales for Software Defined Radio
Thales Deutschland has been awarded contracts to develop VHF/UHF radio module and national waveforms SEM and IdZ for the German Software Defined Radio programme, SVFuA.
Stuttgart / Pforzheim, 16 December 2009 – SVFuA is the German Software Defined Radio (SDR) programme that will bring next generation radio technology to the Bundeswehr, the German Federal Armed Forces. [...]
ONR Awards $9.5M SDR Contract to Raytheon
The award is to Conduct a base study effort in FY 2010 on the development of an open architecture software defined radio system.
Further information is available here.
Navy to develop next-generation JCREW 3.3 IED detection and electronic warfare technologies
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is issuing a broad agency announcement (BAA 10-003) for the JCREW 3.3 science and technology (S&T) program to improve existing JCREW IED detection and electronic warfare system hardware, software, techniques, and technologies.
First off, ONR scientists are interested in improved JCREW antennas. [...]