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. [...]
ITT awarded JTRS software support contract
FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 9, 2009 — ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) announced today that it has been awarded a $22.9 million contract for Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems (SINCGARS) Software In-Service Support (SwISS) by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Joint Program Executive Office. The work will include technical support, enhancements, maintenance and [...]
Targeting Trends In Military Electronics
Microwaves & RF reports Military applications often push technologies to their limits. Applications such as electronic warfare (EW), radar, communications, and surveillance have made demands on RF/microwave technologies over the years, causing oscillator manufacturers [...]
Northrop Grumman Makes Delivery of Flight-Ready Integrated CNI System for F-35 Lightning II
Northrop Grumman announced The integrated CNI system that was delivered to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has nearly 500,000 lines of software and incorporates the Joint Tactical Radio System software architecture. Delivered capabilities include Ultra High Frequency/Very High Frequency receive and transmit, IFF transponder, radar altimeter, tactical air navigation (TACAN) and system hardware and software diagnostics.
Popular P25 Public Safety Waveform Ported to Spectrum’s Software Reconfigurable Radio
Bridging public safety and military networks
BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – May 27, 2009) – Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (TSX:VCM) (”Spectrum”), an advanced communications equipment supplier, announced today a partnership with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) to port the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) public safety waveform to Spectrum’s flexCommTM SDR-4000 software [...]
NASA plans improved ‘Internet in space’
Government Computer News reports NASA’s Deep Space Network is on the way toward becoming a true Internet in space, thanks to the agency’s research and investment in software-defined radios (SDRs). Also, the agency is preparing an SDR test module for the International Space Station that will be capable of connecting the station with an uplink [...]