All-Digital Multi-Net Link-16 Receiver

Current Link-16 receive terminals are large, heavy, expensive, and power inefficient because of their use of analog L-band components for downconversion and dehopping. This also limits operation to a single net. The proposed effort overcomes these limitations by exploiting advances in data converter and FPGA technology to develop an all-digital downconversion, channelization, and dehopping Link-16 receiver architecture capable of Concurrent Multi-Net operations. The proposed receiver is compact, rugged, and inexpensive while providing JTRS compliance and scalability. As part of the Phase I effort, ORB Analytics proposes to develop hardware to demonstrate the all-digital, multi-net Link-16 receiver capability.