Multi-domain Autonomous Tactical Expendable Radio (MATER)
Abstract
MATER addresses the current challenge of low cost, attritable, frequency agile radios enabling joint force interoperability, especially on size weight and power constrained unmanned platforms. The intent of this effort is to leverage the multi-billion commercial investment in the development of low cost software-defined transceivers for the cellular industry and adapt militarily-relevant waveforms and applications for these platforms. This project has a foundation built upon the latest microelectronic processors operating in 5G cellphones, mobile broadband and IoT devices. Using these chips as the basis for a family of military communication devices allows the DoD not only to reap the benefits of their built-in advanced signal processing, encryption and acceleration capabilities, but also gain the size and power benefits of microelectronics manufactured at commodity scale on the most advanced micro-electronics manufacturing nodes for our low SWAP applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- ba8672f2fff01285b620f323c96f256c