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USMC Selects Silvus MANET Radios and MN-MIMO Waveform for Networking On-the-Move Mobile Communications System

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

$5 Million Award Enables USMC’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicles with Spectrum Dominance Capabilities

Los Angeles, California (December 6, 2022) – Silvus Technologies, Inc. (“Silvus”) today announced that the United States Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) has selected Silvus StreamCaster 4400 MANET radios for use in the Networking On-the-Move (NOTM) communications system for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) and Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV). After a competitive selection process, StreamCaster MANET radios were selected to be a critical piece of the NOTM mobile communications architecture due to their ability to create a self-organizing mesh network across multiple spectrum bands at high data rates. The StreamCaster 4400 is the first MANET radio added into the NOTM mobile communication system, with the USMC awarding Silvus a $5 million contract for StreamCaster radio procurement.

The StreamCaster 4400 MANET radio will enable the Marine Air-Ground Task Force to access satellite communications, connect and network dispersed vehicles, airborne assets and dismounted units and enable the warfighter to employ NOTM to transmit critical information to commanders and increase situational awareness in hostile environments.

In addition, all StreamCaster radios acquired by MCSC include Silvus’ proprietary Mobile Networked MIMO (MN-MIMO) waveform with Spectrum Dominance features to enable operations in congested and contested spectrum environments.

“As the Department of Defense increases integration of MANET radios into the Joint All-Domain Command & Control Communications architecture, enabling USMC’s NOTM communications system is a significant milestone for Silvus,” said Chris Nigon, Senior Director of Navy, Marine, and Air Force Programs at Silvus. “With this contract award, we are proud that our StreamCaster MANET radios and MN-MIMO waveform with advanced Spectrum Dominance capabilities will become an essential piece of the NOTM mobile communications system, putting high-performance wireless networking capabilities in the hands of our Marines.”

Learn more about the StreamCaster family of radios and MN-MIMO waveform on the Silvus website and follow Silvus on LinkedIn.

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Juggernaut Case Improves Customer Experience

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Juggernaut Case recently launched a new website which makes it a lot easier to find the right case for your device and use.

Aside from the cleaner design and updated imagery, you’ll find navigation based on customer type. For example, if you’re shopping for cases, you can shop by device brand (Apple, Samsung, etc) or activity. There’s also an option to navigate for Protect (cases), Mount, or Connect (cables).

Government Procurement personnel such as Military, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Agency, Industry resellers/integrators can navigate within a dedicated menu.

There’s also a way to access Design Services for custom development info/requests.

Coming soon to the site: dedicated login account portal for resellers, integrators, gov contractors for tracking order history, quote generation, price lists, etc.

juggernautcase.com

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VS-17 Type Signaling Panels from WTF

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

WTF are pleased to introduce two VS-17 inspired signaling panels. The first is a square Red Cross & VS-17 Type Signaling Panel at 4.0 oz / 114g and 27″ x 27″ (68xm x 68cm). Red Cross on white background on one side, orange/pink rectangles on the other side.

The second is a more traditional rectangle at 4.9oz / 140g and 28″ x 34″ (71cm x 86cm). Neon pink on side and blaze orange on the other.

Both panels have a total of four (4) 3/4″ 5038 nylon tie downs, one on each corner, ready to lash it down securely. Panels are lightweight 200D fade and abrasion resistant nylon and stitched entirely with milspec, bonded nylon thread. Panels are made in the USA with Berry compliant textiles.

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Airmen Compete in Joint Global Radio Contest Noble Skywave

Sunday, November 20th, 2022

U.S. ARMY GARRISON BAUMHOLDER, Germany (AFNS) —

Military units from around the world recently participated in Noble Skywave, a global cyber contest, at U.S. Army Garrison Baumholder.

Noble Skywave is a multi-national high-frequency radio contest hosted by the Canadian Armed Forces.

This year’s competition brought together 429 military units from across 13 nations competing to determine who can most efficiently utilize high-frequency radio technology.

Each team was placed into one of three categories based on the amount of transmitting power their radio station has.

During the contest, teams set up a fully functioning radio station and utilized their skills to connect with other radio stations, some being thousands of miles away.

“There is a set number of stations playing in this contest, and our objective is to contact as many of them as possible,” said Airman 1st Class Matthew Recchia, 1st Combat Communication Squadron cyber infrastructure technician. “Whoever contacts the most stations, wins.”

High-frequency radio technology and its operators are crucial to the U.S. military, allies and partners as it is not reliant on conventional ways of communications technology, such as satellites or cell phone towers which are vulnerable to weather conditions or an attack from an adversary.

If conventional ways of communication were to ever go down or become inoperable, that is where high-frequency radio comes in. The technology works by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere, a layer in the atmosphere that is electrically charged by the sun, allowing communication between people that are a vast distance apart.

“Last year, our farthest link was 11,700 kilometers away,” said Senior Airman Kelley Jay, 1st CBCS radio frequency transmission systems technician. “We communicated with a radio station in Peru from Germany by using this radio technology.”

In this year’s competition, the longest connection the 1st CBCS made was with New Zealand, at approximately 18,000 kilometers away.

Most importantly, by using high-frequency technology, one can send documents, emails, orders or anything else needed to ensure mission success.

Though it is a contest, Noble Skywave provides the opportunity for military partners to come together to enhance their skills for a common goal of defending the NATO alliance.

“The purpose of the contest is to keep our high-frequency radio skills sharp,” Jay said. “But it also ensures the international communications community is interoperable and ready to respond effectively if the need arises.”

U.S. forces in Europe live, train and operate with allies and partners from strategic locations across the continent to ensure a timely and coordinated response during peacetime and crisis.

Within their category, 1st CBCS came in third place with a total of 200 connections made with other radio stations around the world using high-frequency radio.

By Airman 1st Class Jared Lovett, 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

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MWW 22 – goTenna Pro Deployment Kit 2

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

goTenna has upgraded their Pro Deployment Kit with a new tablet-based software application server which replaces the old Raspberry Pi server. It also offers geolocation visualization of the goTenna Pro X2 mesh networking devices. There are 30 in the kit which also acts as a charging device. The system offers AES256 encryption via Android and it allows you to stand up comms completely off grid.

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Orilia Emergency Locator Beacons

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Earlier this year Safran purchased Orilia, a business which specializes in resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) among other things. One of those other things is Emergency Locator Beacons like this one for Search and Rescue they showed me at AUSA.

It’s a simple device that transits the location once turned on via the integrated tape-style antenna which stores wrapped around the device. It also resists GPS jamming and spoofing for high confidence of isolated personnel location.

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Kägwerks x ONYX – Force Fynder for Real-Time Sensor Data Integration

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Designed by ONYX with input from Kägwerks, Force Fynder is a plug-and-play hub allowing it to collect a wide range of sensor data, including inertial measurement and multi-axis positioning, in addition to a variety of available bio-metric sensors. It can also be used as a stand-alone wearable module using its onboard Accelerometer, Altimeter, and Barometer.

The system utilizes radios (selectable between BLE, LTE 3/4/5G, and Satcom) offering over 12 hours of battery life and allowing communication with other intelligent systems in a heterogeneous ecosystem. The range is 10-25 km, antenna (and SATCOM) dependent.

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AUSA 22 – Gentex Ops-Core AMP Headset Mount for Army Issue Helmet

Thursday, October 13th, 2022

The US Army’s Integrated Head Protection System (IHPS) certainly has a unique geometry and the rail system remains challenging.

A couple of companies have come up with ways to attach over-the-ear style comms headsets with varying degrees of success thanks to the accessory rail and helmet shape. Generally, the arm ends up sticking out quite a bit.

Gentex tasked their Ops-Core team to take a crack at it and they created two styles. Here you can see an IHPS from head-on equipped with an AMP headset. On the left is the more prevalent style of attachment arm which is quite pronounced. To the right is a modified solution using the standard AMP arm, which is much more streamlined.

Here Ops-Core uses the issue IHPS accessory rail along with a custom arm. This sticks out quite a bit from the helmet.

Next, Ops-Core developed a rail appliqué which facilitates use of the lower profile AMP attachment arm.

While there is currently no official requirement for attachment of an over-the-ear style comms headset to IHPS, individual organizations are procuring the capability. Perhaps soon, we will see a new Army requirement and this will be one of the options.

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