Mobile Ad Hoc Interoperability Networking GATEway (MAINGATE)
Abstract
(U) Building upon gateway technology developed under the WNaN and Future Combat Systems (FCS) Communications program, the Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Networking GATEway (MAINGATE) program seeks to develop the next generation Network Centric Radio System (NCRS) with additional capabilities and an assured affordable unit price to the user. MAINGATE will enable heterogeneous groups of radios to be integrated into a heterogeneous network tolerant to high latency and packet loss. The technologies developed for the program will permit affordable, tactical, real-time, high fidelity video, data, and voice services to be deployed in a networked environment to support tactical operations in maneuver or dismounted operations for line-of-site and beyond-line-of-site communications on the move and at the halt. Two critical technologies for achieving these goals: 1) a backbone radio architecture that enables a versatile IP Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) and 2) a radio gateway that enables legacy analog and digital communications systems to be interconnected through a network. The MAINGATE program will use an iterative build-test-build approach that will culminate with limited user testing by U.S. and Allied Experimental Forces evaluating the affect of MAINGATE on new tactics, techniques and procedures designed for the networked maneuver and dismounted forces. The resulting MAINGATE system and capability is planned for transition in 2011 to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps with a focus on Special Operations Forces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- d2ab221d5012c5eed409a5cbf09d776c