JTRS, WIN-T related products on display on LandWarNet expo floor
LandWarNet attendees who wandered onto the expo floor today were able to see a demonstration of voice, streaming video and situational awareness data transmitted over a radio network using the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW), showing off the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) compatibility of Harris' Falcon III AN/PRC-117G.
Also on display at the Harris booth was the Falcon III RF-300s-TR001, a new secure personal radio designed to meet the requirements of the Defense Department's JTRS program, and the JTRS Rifleman Radio Program in particular. Announced here at LandWarNet, the radio uses Suite-N encryption algorithms that can provide information protection up to the requirements for information with a classification at the Secret level without the need for cryptographic controlled item handling — eliminating the need for every soldier equipped with the radio to have a security clearance.
The RF-300S, uses the P25 waveform for interoperability with currently deployed squad radios, and will also support the SRW and Harris' Advanced Wideband Networking Waveform.
Among the other technologies on display here was Netcordia's NetMRI, a hardware device included by General Dynamics in WIN-T Increment 1. It provides communicators with actionable information about the health of their network. Netcordia, announced here at LandWarNet that the company had secured a new multi-million dollar subcontract from General Dynamics to continue to provide its NetMRI, a network health assessment tool, as part of the WIN-T program.
According to a NetCordia representative, more than 150 of the rack-mountable systems were deployed as part of WIN-T Increment 1, and 58 were later staged for deployment.
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