In recent years there has been a surge in need for high capacity data transfer through operational airborne, maritime, and ground nodes without the use of SATCOM services. Multi-band communications allow for the mitigation of changing propagation, increased throughput, and an ability to adapt as spectrum authorization is allowed. Directional efficient Active Electronic Steered Arrays (AESA) are the major solution for line-of-sight, long range communication links. This phase II effort will continue the network analysis using measured antenna performance to quantify implemented operations of a multi-node, multi-spectrum, communication networks. The key enabling RF sub-systems will be integrated and tested for performance to prove out overall network capability.
