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IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Roy Rubenstein |
Radios Get Smart But can they be trusted to roam the spectrum and not interfere with existing users? Some analysts say it's only a matter of time before cognitive radios get into the commercial arena, because the economics are compelling. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John McHale |
SDR: A Spectrum of Possibilities Whether it is called a disruptive technology or a paradigm shift in communications, the proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology is changing the way the military and other industries view radio communications. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Ariel Bleicher |
Peaceful Coexistence on the Radio Spectrum The trials of a small team of engineers who set out to reanimate paralyzed limbs demonstrate the virtues of dynamic spectrum sharing |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 John McHale |
SDR: Here, There, and Everywhere Software-defined radio technology, driven by the Joint Tactical Radio System program, is enhancing communications throughout the U.S. military and in civilian and commercial applications worldwide. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2010 Mitchell Lazarus |
The Great Radio Spectrum Famine Mobile broadband is consuming the available radio spectrum. Serving up more won't be easy |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Battlefield Applications of Wireless Networks Traditionally, land forces combat and service support units rely on voice communications for operations, coordination and control |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad |
The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Spectrum Offers Family of Rugged Embedded Radio Modules for Size- and -Power-Constrained Applications The rugged flexComm SDR-4800 family of embedded radio modules are for tactical military communications (MILCOM), data link, defense, and civil satellite communications (SATCOM) systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
Navy Looks to Software-Defined Radio to Supplement or Replace Satellite Communications Raytheon engineers will investigate new modular, software-defined digital radio architectures to improve data link performance with high-throughput waveforms in all frequency bands. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Software-Defined Radio and Jtrs The U.S. military's next-generation radio system is to be based on software-defined radios, which will enable one radio to communicate with several radio networks, no matter the type of radio, whether it be SINCGARS or a satellite terminal. |
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean |
Industry Pushing Ahead with Software-Based Radios The U.S. Defense Department's troubled program to replace its radios with a family of software-based communications devices is plodding along slowly. |
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Laser Communications to Thwart Jamming, Interception Laser communications, also known as free space opticals, hold the promise of giving the military a means to transmit high amounts of data and voice that is hard to detect and an alternative to traditional radio frequencies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John Keller |
Industry Scores a Win with Military Technologies Conference We sat down with a panel of experts representing the most important corners of our industry. Their insights led us to craft three separate conference segments: sensor fusion for command and control; transformational communications, and directed-energy systems. |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
New Multi-Band Radio Key to Interoperable Communications, But Concerns Are Raised About Price A world where police, fire, and emergency services can seamlessly communicate with each other over the airwaves has been a dream of the Department of Homeland Security since the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later. |
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Trials and tribulations persist in Joint Tactical Radio The military services are severely slashing their expected buys of the Defense Department's troubled joint tactical radio system. |
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Rise of Smartphones May Sound Death Knell for Old Push-to-Talk Radios Handing an infantryman a device the size and shape of a brick that can only perform one task, voice communications, may soon be akin to issuing him a musket. |
National Defense November 2009 Wright & Magnuson |
Communication Interoperability Not Yet Achieved, Says Chertoff Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff expressed frustration that the federal government has yet to establish a national radio spectrum available to public-safety agencies during emergencies. |
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel |
Industry Ready to Pounce on Embattled Radio Programs After nearly two decades and billions of dollars spent, the Joint Tactical Radio System, once a grand plan to build do-it-all radios common to the military services, is in a state of flux. |
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority. |
National Defense January 2006 David C. Walsh |
Inter-Agency Communications Systems Remain Uncoordinated Hurricane Katrina revealed many failures in the government's communications capabilities. But replacing old analog systems with interoperable transmission equipment, special gear and redundant systems is an expensive, operationally complex proposition. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Jean Kumagai |
Radio Revolutionaries A cellphone based on software-defined radio would be lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more power efficient. What's more, it would be better at making calls. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Stephen Cass |
Hardware for Your Software Radio What's going to be the next big thing in wireless technology? One bet is software-defined radio, and thanks to a piece of hardware called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, you can get right to the bleeding edge today. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 |
Harris announces Unity XG-100 multiband software-defined radio for public safety The XG-100 provides secure interoperable communications over public-safety frequency bands from 136 to 870 MHz, which would enable emergency personnel to communicate directly without carrying several radios or route transmissions through ad-hoc network bridges. |
National Defense September 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army, Marines Buying Loads Of Radios In response to booming Army and Marine Corps tactical radio orders, manufacturers rapidly are expanding their production capacity to meet this extraordinary demand. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 |
Aeroflex Offers RF Spectrum Analyzer for the 3500 Hand-Held Radio Test Set Using an advanced fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, the 3500 spectrum analyzer option provides an almost instantaneous display of the RF frequency spectrum. |
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson |
New Radio Software Promises Improved Access to Military Satellites Radio manufacturers this year will offer to their military customers a new application that will provide easier connections to communication satellites. |
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Closest of Allies, But Not When it Comes to Radios Despite considerable advances in tactical communications technology interoperability on the battlefield between U.S. and U.K. forces remains years away. |
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright |
DHS Tests Multi-Band, Interoperable Radio The Department of Homeland Security has entered the final stages of its four-year, nearly $9 million effort to develop a multi-band radio that can communicate across virtually all spectrums. |
National Defense August 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Fiber Optic Cables Help Special Operators Stay Concealed Fiber optic cables that connect tactical radios to antennas up to 10 kilometers away or farther can be useful tools in covert operations. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Billy Brackenridge |
Ultrawideband Upset WiMedia, the next generation of wireless connectivity, is raising some interesting questions about privacy. Will ultrashort-range radio have far-reaching legal consequences? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
Spectrum Signal Processing Selected for French Communication Equipment Test Initiative Antycip's FlexComm SDR-3002 systems will enable CELAR engineers to test waveforms and radios for SCA compliance. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus |
When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air |
Scientific American September 2009 Larry Greenemeier |
Radio for Responders: Public Safety Bandwidth Goes Unused As multiband radio for public safety proceeds, the digital spectrum for it still lags |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 J.R. Wilson |
RF and Microwave Industry Struggles to Meet the High Demands of the Military Defense and homeland-security users of radio frequency (RF)/microwave products have demanding and unique needs that the commercial market can fulfill only rarely, which shines the spotlight on this area of a U.S. military that is starved for research and development money. |
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Navy's Digital Modular Radio Gets Software Boost General Dynamics Mission Systems' digital modular radio has been deployed on Navy ships for more than 10 years. The service has focused on upgrading the radios with modern capabilities. |
National Defense September 2014 Christina Munnell |
DARPA Program Aims to Reduce Cost of Electronic Antenna Systems A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program is seeking to sharply reduce the cost and years it takes to develop electronically scanned array antennas. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
JTRS HMS Program on Track Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems say the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios are on track for deployment at the beginning of the next decade. |
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming. |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward |
Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger. |
National Defense May 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Studying Options To Lower Cost of GPS Receivers Information-age technologies such as software radio and miniaturized electronics could, one day, make it possible for soldiers to combine their global positioning satellite receivers and handheld radios into a single device. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Debuts FPGA-Based VITA 57 Embedded Computer The ADC513 is designed for demanding military embedded systems that involve direct RF down conversion, digital video surveillance, military signals intelligence, satellite communications, and software-defined radio applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
SATCOM RF Booster Amplifier Military Radio Communications Introduced by AR Modular RF The 50-watt auto-tuning, multi-band tactical RF amplifier can help soldiers maintain constant, reliable military radio communications in demanding environments. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
Aeroflex Provides Marines with Radio Test Equipment for Legacy and Software-Defined Radio Aeroflex engineers will supply the company's 7200 Configurable Automated Test Set (CATS) to the U.S. marine Corps' Ground Radio Maintenance Automatic Test Systems (GRMATS). |
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Wi-Fi Radio Takes a Digital Turn Intel's new transceiver pushes RF circuitry further into the digital realm, but will it make it out of the lab? |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
DoD Relinquishes Spectrum to Sate Wireless Industry Demands The Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration were asked to free up 500 megahertz of federal and non-federal spectrum by 2020 in order to make it available for fixed and mobile wireless communications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Attention Turns to RF and Microwave Test and Measurement Federal programs, industry consortia, and engineers advance RF and microwave technologies to ensure their accuracy and reliability. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Clark Nguyen |
Radios With Micromachined Resonators Future wireless designs will replace electronics with precision mechanical components. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 |
Army Chooses Datron Tactical Radio Military Communications for Overseas Forces The company is providing two types of VHF tactical radios to the Afghan army: the PRC-1077 man-pack VHF radio and the HH7700 VHF handheld radio. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Alexander Hellemans |
A New Twist on Radio Waves Using the angular momentum of light could make one radio channel into two, three, or more. But many wireless experts are skeptical |
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 K.J. Ray Liu |
Cognitive Radio and Game Theory As our radios get smarter, they'll be competing for overcrowded airwaves. Game theory can make them cooperate. |