SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin has delivered a developmental radio for an Internet-Protocol tactical communications network to the U.S. Army for testing.
The radio, with an essential Link-16 functionality, was delivered ahead of schedule to the Airborne and Maritime Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System AMF JTRS Program Office for integration, the company said.
The unit will be evaluated by the Apache Longbow AH-64D platform integration laboratory in Mesa, Ariz.
"This delivery is a significant event in the future of the JTRS Enterprise as it represents the first opportunity for an aircraft program to begin working on software defined radio interfaces," said Mark Norris, vice president for Lockheed Martin's Joint Tactical Network Solutions within IS&GS-Defense. "This delivery will allow a "walk before you run" approach for the AH-64D integration team before receiving the actual engineering development model in early 2011."
AMF JTRS is an Internet-Protocol network. Through software-defined radio technology, it will connect a diverse range of radios and waveforms to provide joint forces with secure, real-time, interoperable communications.
