VULCAN WIRELESS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-090

Description

Diverse communication paths are needed to connect Military Operations Centers (MOC) to tactical radios in the field without requiring modifications to the radios on ships, airplanes, and other platforms. We propose a communications payload, hosted on a LEO satellite, that has a wide-band deployable antenna. This combination consists of our solution to provide a Rapid Integration Tactical Communications Payload (RITCP). The communications payload can communicate with existing and future tactical radios and pass HAIPE encrypted data to the host commercial SATCOM system to be relayed to the appropriate MOC where it can be decrypted, and an encrypted response be sent back through the HAIPE encrypted commercial SATCOM system and then back through the Vulcan NSR SDR to the appropriate tactical radio. <br>There are a wide range of waveforms are possible for the NSR system to host. For example; MIL-STD-188-181B, MIL-STD-188-165A, Link-22, Link-16, Adaptive Networking Wide bandwidth Waveform (ANW2), Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), P25 (Project 25), Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW), Solder Radio Waveform (SRW) and Common Data Link (CDL).