UP	Paper 1408	US-M-V	DOWN
Joint Tactical Radio System – Bringing the GIG to the Tactical Edge
Schiavone,Leonard		MITRE
Browne,Norm		SRA
North,Dr. Rich		JPEO JTRS
MILCOM ’06 Paper Proposal Title: Joint Tactical Radio System – Bringing the GIG to the Tactical Edge Authors: Dr. Rich North, JTRS JPEO; Norm Browne, SRA; Len Schiavone, MITRE The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) is one of the Department of Defense’s pillar programs in the transformational communications realm. This paper will explain recent changes to the JTRS program and its new approach to delivery of wireless networking capabilities to the warfighter. To accommodate a more diverse set of applications, the JTRS program has broadened the scope of its networking waveforms. The Wideband Networking Waveform is the program’s original networking waveform and is capable of transporting IP data in an ad-hoc networking environment. Due to unique operating characteristics of other warfighter domains, additional waveforms are being pursued to extend this networking capability across the battlespace. This paper will discuss the networking capabilities, architectural approaches and technologies underpinning the JTRS aspects of Transformational Communications. This paper was invited for the Transformational Communications session by Phong Tran, SIAC, Session Organizer.
Dr. Rich North is a US Government Navy civil servant at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR SSC) in San Diego and serves as the Technical Director for the JPEO JTRS. Dr. North attended the University of California, Davis and received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and his Masters of Engineering in EE at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Dr. North received his Ph.D in ECE from the University of California in San Diego. He has been with the Navy for over 14 years leading a variety of R&D and procurement activities in military communications systems.