Team Transportable Communications/Collection Suite

Next Century Corporation and Southwest Research Institute have teamed to design and build the Team Transportable (T2) system proposed herein. Our T2 solution is designed to provide forward-deployed ground forces and commanders with an easy-to-deploy, remote, unmanned signal collection and processing front-end from which real-time updates are supplied to forward-deployed team members and to the back-end command post. The T2 solution will need to be sufficiently flexible to be effectively deployed in a variety of mission scenarios including those where:  the risk of a forward-manned cryptologic operation is too high, or  a forward-manned cryptologic operation is inappropriate for the environment or operation, or  expanded electronic force protection capabilities are required to support the SOF commander The T2 system will also need to have the flexibility to support and interface with a variety of antennas, receivers, radios and related systems. Toward that end, a key aspect of our proposed solution is the ability to effectively collaborate with other deployed signal collection and threat warning assets, such as the bodyworn and manpack systems, thereby further enhancing the situational awareness provided to the SOF team. Next Century and SwRI are leveraging the expertise and technology jointly developed by their team for the related SBIR from USSOCOM for the bodyworn Threat Warning System (Topic Number SOCOM02-012). The Next Century / SwRI T2 solution incorporates relevant features of the bodyworn threat warning system, thus ensuring architectural compatibility and interoperability between the two solutions. Our T2 solution also benefits from SwRI's expertise in developing larger command and control SIGINT collection and analysis systems for the United States Navy.