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.
MITRE has an opening for a Senior Communications Systems Engineer to provide engineering support to JTRS programs. The position will be based in San Diego.
PrismTech is presenting a webcast on SCA Waveform Design for FPGAs. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Iridium, the ill-fated Motorola satellite venture, emerged from bankruptcy in 2001 and now they’re enabling voice and data comm everywhere in the world!
SDR is the keystone of Sprint’s Network Vision overhaul, according to a story on Connected Planet.
Well, at least some of them apparently are… National Defense Magazine’s blog featured a recent post contrasting the network bandwidth and device capabilities provided to soldiers by JTRS with what’s commonly available in the commercial market. It’s not a happy story.
Humping more than 70 pounds of gear around isn’t exactly the most effective way to fight in the mountains. Fortunately, the U.S. military is trying to lighten the burden, and SDR has a role to play.
The Department of Defense’s vision of a theater wide fully integrated voice and data network is getting closer every day. Now the Army is giving itself kudos for their “agile” approach. However they choose to describe it, it seems to be working.
If you want to develop some embedded information security software for an SDR project in Germany, this could be your chance.
