SOFIC NEWS: Trade Crew Debuts Consolidated Communications for Dismounted Forces
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TAMPA, Florida — An trade crew is pitching a brand new communications system that mixes a cellular advert hoc community and tactical radios for particular operators — a long-sought functionality for warfighters.
Persistent Methods and Thales not too long ago unveiled an built-in communications system that brings superior tactical radios to the digital community by leveraging a cellular advert hoc community — often called a MANET — a decentralized sort of wi-fi community that doesn’t depend on pre-existing infrastructure. The system takes Thales’ AN/PRC-148E Spear — a handheld multiband, tactical radio extensively utilized by militaries world wide — and utilizing a particularly designed cable, connects it to the MPU5 MANET system made by Persistent Methods.
When built-in, warfighters are ready to make use of the MPU5 to entry and change between varied frequencies and channels used on the Spear radio, stated Brian McDonald, the vice chairman of area technical providers and help at Persistent Methods.
The MPU5 from Persistent System is a MANET system that gives entry to the corporate’s “Wave Relay” communications community. Already contracted by the Military for its Bradley Combating Car substitute, the system unites a warfighter’s vital knowledge sources — from movies to audio communications — and shows it on an Android pc pill.
“The concept is that an operator that’s carrying the MPU5 can entry full movement video that’s coming from a fixed-wing plane, or they will drive a robotic, or on this case … we are able to put these legacy tactical radios of the world and put that on the community as an asset,” McDonald defined Could 18 on the sidelines of the Particular Operation Forces Trade Convention in Tampa.
The present tactical radios utilized by U.S. Military Particular Operations Command and different items are utilizing legacy radios that function on varied frequencies for issues like satellite tv for pc communications, fireplace help, medical evacuation and extra, McDonald stated.
“All of these frequencies and people channels reside in these tactical radios, however we nonetheless need to entry them on the cellular advert hoc community” he stated. “What I can do is go into an app residing on the MPU5 and alter the preset of the radio to a special frequency in order that it may possibly talk to a special set of person.”
The Persistent Methods and Thales crew debuted the built-in communications system throughout SOFIC. McDonald stated the federal government and protection group has tried to pair MANET know-how with the legacy tactical radios presently utilized by troopers, however there have been points on each the community and radio aspect.
Military Particular Operations command might be placing up a necessities doc quickly, asking for an built-in communications system like that of the Spear-MPU5, McDonald stated. The trade crew plans to strategy all of the elements of SOCOM and pitch the system for particular operators, he added.
Matters: Particular Operations