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DARPA developing milimmter wave wireless communications to connect dismounted warfighters using UAVs and provide 100 Gb/s RF Backbone (100G)using High-altitude, long-endurance platforms.

October 13, 2018 Comm. & NW Comments Off on DARPA developing milimmter wave wireless communications to connect dismounted warfighters using UAVs and provide 100 Gb/s RF Backbone (100G)using High-altitude, long-endurance platforms.

Modern expeditionary military missions generate and exchange massive amounts of data that are used to produce situational awareness and guide decision-making. Much of the data must travel long distances along backbone communications networks composed of high-capacity links that connect command centers. Fiber optic cables provide the core backbone for …

Soldiers require Secure, low-intercept and low-detection communications and networking technologies for future battlefield

October 5, 2018 Comm. & NW, Soldier Comments Off on Soldiers require Secure, low-intercept and low-detection communications and networking technologies for future battlefield

The vision for the future soldier is to be combat effective and also highly mobile, adaptive, networked, sustainable with total battle space situation awareness and information assurance. Therefore, he is equipped with night- vision goggles, radios, smartphones, GPS, infrared sights, a laptop as well as batteries to power them. All …

Military exploring LiFi technology for secure high data rate communications for facilities, vehicles and submarines

July 23, 2018 Comm. & NW Comments Off on Military exploring LiFi technology for secure high data rate communications for facilities, vehicles and submarines

The Li-Fi is a wireless communication system in which light is used as a carrier signal instead of traditional radio frequency as in Wi-Fi. Li-Fi is a technology that utilizes a light emitting diode to transmit data wirelessly. LiFi works by switching LEDs on and off within nanoseconds to communicate …

DARPA’s Communicating with Computers (CwC) developing technology to facilitate human-like communication between warfighters and their unamnned vehicles

June 27, 2018 Comm. & NW Comments Off on DARPA’s Communicating with Computers (CwC) developing technology to facilitate human-like communication between warfighters and their unamnned vehicles

The lifelong human imperative to communicate is so strong that people talk not only to other people but also to their pets, their plants and their computers. Straightforward as that may sound, communication involves several coordinated processes. The speaker puts ideas into words, the listener extracts ideas from words and, importantly, …

DARPA exploring the convergence of biology and electromagnetics for military communications and sensing

May 16, 2018 Comm. & NW, Electronics & EW Comments Off on DARPA exploring the convergence of biology and electromagnetics for military communications and sensing

Radio frequency waves (RF) are electromagnetic waves between the frequencies of 3 kilohertz to 300 gigahertz, used in radio, cellphones, wi-fi, radar, GPS, and many other systems. While humans have used RF technology to communicate for over 100 years, no living organism has ever been observed using RF to communicate …

DARPA’s HERMES developed next generation extremely wideband, jam-resistant radios, based on RF photonics technology

April 7, 2018 Comm. & NW, Photonics Comments Off on DARPA’s HERMES developed next generation extremely wideband, jam-resistant radios, based on RF photonics technology

Access to spectrum is also critical for future swarm of UAVs, In a vision shared by innovators, entrepreneurs, and planners in both defense and civilian contexts, the skies of the future will be busy with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unseen but central to the realization of this vision is wireless communication …

DARPA CommEx developed cognitive radio technologies that maintain communications even under severe jamming environment

March 4, 2018 Comm. & NW Comments Off on DARPA CommEx developed cognitive radio technologies that maintain communications even under severe jamming environment

Russia, has displayed jamming and spoofing capabilities in the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria in the last several years. The use of Russian technology in these conflicts demonstrated that Russia retains advanced electronic warfare capabilities. Russia has deployed Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and SIGINT aircraft, such as the Il-20, …

DARPA’s AMEBA developing transmitters that could communicate through walls, undersea and underground environment

November 16, 2017 Comm. & NW, Electronics & EW Comments Off on DARPA’s AMEBA developing transmitters that could communicate through walls, undersea and underground environment

Modern day radio transmitters and receivers, the devices that uses electromagnetic wave signals to communicate through cellphones, radios and television, seem to be present everywhere. The propagation of these electromagnetic waves has some limitation too, Key among these is that radio frequency signals hit veritable and literal walls when they …

DARPA IAMANET developed scalable and secure Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETS) to support an entire battalion

December 16, 2016 Comm. & NW, Military Comments Off on DARPA IAMANET developed scalable and secure Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETS) to support an entire battalion

The modern battlespace is an irregular, against a tech-enabled enemy, and within urban environments and/or complex terrain. Traditional communications infrastructure like cell phone towers are centralized therefore vulnerable to single point failures such as physical damage to their central server, or compromised by a cyber-attack. During disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis …