BEYOND JTRS


TESTING MID-TIER RADIO


The NIEs are key to evaluating the requirements for a mid-tier radio within the network architecture. Here, a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle is equipped with components of Warf- ighter Information Network – Tactical Increment 2, the Army’s mobile network backbone, during NIE 13.1 in fall 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Claire Heininger)


assignment,


at which time


they


will


become the responsibility of the PM Tac- tical Radios team.


With the technological advances in the commercial radio market and the matu- ration


of nonproprietary waveforms,


such as Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) and Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), the AMF and MNVR programs have been restructured as Non-Develop- mental Item (NDI) programs. Te NDI designation means that the programs will seek to meet requirements by identifying and integrating technically mature COTS hardware solutions—consisting of various platform, weight, battery power, and size configurations—that can port waveforms housed in JTNC’s Information Repository.


Te AMF NDI effort consists of two separate developmental radio programs: the Small Airborne Link 16 Terminal for Apache aircraft and the Small Airborne


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“We can tap into the hardware that has been developed over the last 10 years within industry and develop a new, improved radio,” Nurse explained.


Both AMF radio programs are slated to enter low-rate initial production (LRIP) by the fourth quarter of FY14.


Te MNVR, a vehicle-based radio that will include a minimum of two channels and will use SRW and WNW, emerged from the former JTRS Ground Mobile Radio effort. Te Army released a Request for Proposal in August 2012, and subse- quently conducted laboratory and field evaluations of the radios submitted by


January–March 2013


Te Army is also moving forward with the HMS program, a key element of its effort to network small units with Sol- diers by providing critical information at the lowest echelons. Te service is field- ing the HMS Rifleman Radio as part of Capability Set (CS) 13, the first integrated package of communications technology to emerge from the NIE process. (See related article, Page 28.)


Carried by platoon, squad, and team- level Soldiers, the Rifleman Radio provides


a self-forming, self-healing


wireless voice and data network for tac- tical echelons on-the-move. Rifleman is a single-channel radio configured for use


Networking Radio, which is designed for the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System and the Apache, Chinook, Black Hawk, and Kiowa helicopters, according to Navy CAPT Nigel Nurse, AMF Pro- gram Manager.


several


industry


candidates. Network


Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1, which took place in October and November, was also used to evaluate the requirements for a mid-tier radio within the network architecture.


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