SBIR-STTR Award

This proposal addresses the design, interface and application of the Soldier's Radio: a lightweight, miniature module to attach to and interoperate with the GPS and Soldier's Computer under development, with input/output and control interfaces appropriate to the field. The critical problem is provision of a man-machine interface which will be transparent to the user, and of intra-squad and inter-squad voice, data and imagery communications, to support the soldier as a node in a network.

Keywords:
soldier's radio soldier's computer human engineering spread spectrum

This proposal addresses the development of a Soldier's Radio Architecture (SRA), intended to define the interface and transfer characteristics of modules at the ASIC level, circuit card level, and man-machine I/O level, and to encompass and support the ready and frequent insertion of technology-driven and/or mission-driven modular upgrades in a family of Soldier Radio products. The design and evolution of the SRA will be monitored and informed by a national working group of vendors and users to the formed in this program, and the SRA will be completely open architecture within which vendors may competitively insert propriety modules.

Keywords:
soldier's radio soldier's computer human engineering spread spectrum