Military Embedded Systems published a very good article covering both the current status of the JTRS program and a little bit of history. If you’re involved in JTRS and/or SDR, you’ll enjoy this informative piece.
We recently caught wind of a very interesting opportunity down in Scottsdale. General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) has an opening for a Systems Engineer to work on JTRS waveforms. I hear that this is a fairly senior role and that the successful candidate will have a significant impact on the program. If you pursue this, [...]
The rash of JTRS related announcements and news stories over the past few weeks clearly shows that the program is in transition. Perhaps we should pause for a moment to see if we can get a handle on the bigger picture.
Wired’s Danger Room covers the Nett Warrior End User Device. Hint: "This is not a phone"
Harris’ new MBC-100 “Mobile Subscriber Device” is based on some impressive sounding technology from Altair Semiconductor — the O²P Software Defined Radio processor.
While we may like to toss around the term “Software Defined XYZ”, the truth is that all modern systems are the result of careful tradeoffs between hardware and software. Grant Martin shares his perspectives on the topic.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations has slashed funding for GMR due to the unfortunate setbacks in that part of the program.
EB, Elektrobit Corporation’s Tactical Wireless IP Network is being deployed by the Finnish Defense Forces. It looks like some extremely interesting technology.
Austin based Kuma Signals just announced that they’ve been awarded a $750K contract from the US Navy to continue developing wireless communications technology.
They’re calling it “the first soldier smart radio,” but that might be stretching it just a tiny bit.
