Army Taps Three Companies For ‘Automated Failover’ Radio Evaluation, Soldier Tests Starting In September

摘要

The Army will test new radios from three companies over the next year to evaluatetechnologies to maintain soldier communications on the battlefield by automatically switchingbetween waveforms after initial channels are compromised, with plans to start experimentswith soldiers in September.Persistent Systems, Silvus and Oceus have each received a deal from the Army’s NetworkCross Functional Team (CFT) and Program Executive Office Command Control CommunicationsTactical (PEO C3T) to test their new radios and inform the feasibility of integrating “automatedfailover” capabilities for battlefield communications.