Spectral Efficicent Range Communications System

The San Diego Research Center (SDRC) and Cubic Defense Systems offers a visionary communication system that addresses the needs of the Army's test and training ranges to ultimately achieve interoperability, compatibility and commonality while accommodatingthe specific requirements that the ranges be ready to participate in the Army's Transformation through testing the weapons of the Future Combat System and the Objective Force. In the proposed work, SDRC and Cubic will identify all of the functionsrequired at the test and training ranges for evaluating the weapon systems of the FCS and the Objective Force, determine the feasibility of combining these functions into multifunctional systems, explore the latest and emerging technologies to improvespectral efficiency and complete an initial system design. This technology once matured, would have potentional commercial applications, such as wireless internet, wireless local area network (LAN), millimeter-wave LANS, intelligent transport systems(ITS), cellular radio and broadband access.