Software radios
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A Dept of Defense/multiservice program called the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) is developing a tactical communications system that would meet the requirements of all four services. At present, the US Armed Forces use some 750,000 tactical radios belonging to 30 different families composed of 125 various models. The conventional radios of today are single function and have very little or no networking capability. The JTRS intends to develop tactical radios to be used by the four services that will be available in compatible handheld, manpack, vehicular, airborne and shipboard/fixed station configurations.
Publication Name: Armed Forces Journal International
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0196-3597
Year: 2000
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Wireless tactical Internet
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The US Army uses tactical radio communications systems which are the Single-Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINGCARS) and the Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS). The two systems, which have been upgraded using advanced technologies, offer secure, on- the-move, wireless communications for Army units. The SINGCARS radio is used by Army and Marine Corps field units for command and control. It includes manpack, vehicular and airborne models. EPLRS is a digital UHF wideband data radio which when networked offers reliable, secure and jam- resistant data communications.
Publication Name: Armed Forces Journal International
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0196-3597
Year: 2000
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Beleaguered Bowman
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The Bowman program is intended to develop a new class of tactical radios for the British Army. The Bowman will replace the Clansman series of radios with man-portable and vehicular radios capable of encrypted transmission of voice and data. The two teams that won the bid to develop the Bowman program in Aug 1993 are facing the problem of the increasing demands of the UK Ministry of Defence regarding the standards of the next- generation radio they are developing.
Publication Name: Armed Forces Journal International
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0196-3597
Year: 2000
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