Air Force taps L3Harris to help develop path-agnostic mobile military communications via space internet

摘要

Space communications experts at L3Harris Technologies Inc. are moving forward with a U.S. Air Force research project to find new ways to distribute information among land, sea, and air forces quickly to support high-speed decision-making. Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, announced a $80.8 million contract last week to the L3Harris Technologies C5 Integrated Systems segment in Camden, N.J., for the Defense Experimentation Using the Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program. This project seeks the ability to move and share data seamlessly among a wide variety of fixed and mobile operating locations using constantly available, high-bandwidth, beyond-line-of-sight communications. DEUCSI space-based capability will be called path-agnostic communications because its users will be able to communicate reliably to any location in the world without explicitly specifying which nodes of a communication network to use.