FCS Communications Technology for the Objective Force

Abstract

As part of its technology development program for the Army's Future Combat System (FCS), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working to develop the enabling communications technology needed to revolutionize the Army's future land force into a network centric force capable of operation at a level of synchronization, mobility, and force effectiveness which has been heretofore unachievable. Key to this network centric operation will be a scalable suite of multiband wireless, mobile adhoc networking devices which operate with directional antennas to provide significant improvements in capacity, Anti-jam, and Low Probability of Detection (LPD). This paper reviews the underlying motivation for this technology development and summarizes the numerous technology investments being made by DARPA under their FCS Communications technology program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456276

Entities

People

  • Jim Freebersyser
  • Paul Sass

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Computer Networks
  • Detectors
  • Directional Antennas
  • Frequency Bands
  • High Electron Mobility Transistors
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Mobile Phones
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Sensor Networks
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.