Jay Clemens
Northrop Grumman has completed tests for a protected tactical waveform space processor intended to help improve battlefield communications for soldiers.
The processor established communication through the U.S. Air Force’s tactical waveform during the demonstration at the MIT/Lincoln Labs test facility, Northrop said Wednesday.
The tactical waveform platform incorporated multichannel demodulators, Ethernet-based packet switching, high-data-rate modulators and control software.
Tim Frei, vice president of communication systems at Northrop’s aerospace systems segment, said the company treated the demonstration “as true risk reduction and prototype development†in line with Northrop’s standard process for flight units.
Northrop also tested the terminal emulators’ connection with forward and return processing and Ethernet switching following assessment of the government-defined modem.
The bandwidth-on-demand software also went through a multiuser loading test for its response system that uses available spectrum.
