TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND PROTECTIVE SYSTEM
Abstract
The Tactical Communications and Protective System (TCAPS) enables Soldiers to communicate over radios in combat environments while simultaneously providing hearing protection from both steady state and impulse noise. TCAPS enhances survivability through improved threat detection in operational environments and supports situational awareness by enabling clear and understandable communications over radios in combat situations where hearing can be temporarily impaired from gunfire and explosions. By reducing noise-induced hearing damage, TCAPS contributes to the reduction of post-service disability compensation and limits lost in-service time related to hearing injury. TCAPS will employ commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution(s) with technical readiness level of 8 or higher. There is an immediate need for TCAPS. Theater reports indicate a high incidence of temporary and permanent hearing loss caused by impulse noise when Soldiers remove hearing protection to communicate over radios. Currently hearing loss and other hearing injuries (tinnitus, dizziness, etc.) are the fourth leading reason for medical referral for combatants returning from deployments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- DX7_0604827A_5_2040_PB_2014
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