| This session covers Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Networking, interim solutions and future technology. The JTRS network radio is planned to interconnect ground, sea, air and space assets in the combat theater. It will include communications to the foot soldier as described in the first paper “Emergence of the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) (U)”, by Paul Sass, The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, NJ, USA, Percy Hugo, US Army CERDEC, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, USA and and LTC Ken Evensen, JTRS JPEO. Unfortunately, JTRS is behind its original schedule so included in this session is the second paper describing what can be done as an interim solution. It is “BAE Systems IR&D Development Yields an SCA-Compliant Radio in 12 Months (U)”, by Richard Temkin and David Olesen, BAE Systems Network Solutions, Wayne, NJ, USA. In the third paper, “Tuning the Parameters of JTRS WNW (U)”, Kenneth Brayer, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA shows how to design and adjust the parameters of the WNW network to 1) achieve differing levels of performance and 2) improve the throughput of the design by taking into account the relationship of forward error correction and TCP. In “Ultrafast Digital Switch Matrix for Programmable Routing and Switching of Digitized RF Signals (U), Deborah Van Vechten, Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C., USA, Adam Gerner, US Army CERDEC, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, USA, Richard Hitt, Deep Gupta, Alex Kirichenko and Wes Littlefield, Hypres Incorporated, Elmsford, NY, USA, the authors describe a flexible switched architecture that provides the ability to dynamically assign frequency assets to programmable RF processors. Finally in “Multi-Mission Software Defined Systems, Architecture and Practice (U)”, by David M. Cooper, Joshua Niedzwiecki, David Haessig, Rachel E. Learned, Yiftach Eisenberg, BAE Systems Wayne, NJ and Nashua, NH; Reggie Brothers, DARPA STO, Arlington, Va; Michael Zoltowski, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN, USA the authors discuss systems that enable integrated communications, gateways, Combat ID and Electronic Warfare Systems that can provide the warfighter with on-the-Move capability providing the needed flexibility for to address the threat environment. |