ALTERNATIVE ACQUISITION
WAVES ACROSS SPACE
Modern waveforms will enhance secure communications in future conflicts.
by Dr. Sayeed Hasan, Herald Beljour and Kathryn Bailey O
ne of the most critical weapons in today’s military arsenal is invisible, silent and operates in the air above the battlefield. Tis critical capability is the military waveform, which is the software that carries clear, uninterrupted voice and data transmissions across the force. Unfortunately, waveforms are
vulnerable to multiple impediments vying to degrade their performance when traveling from Point A to Point B.
Currently, congested and contested waveform pathways are one of the most troublesome conditions facing commanders and military planners. Transmissions, which are the broad- casting of electromagnetic waves from one location to another, must fight for space within a crowded electromagnetic spectrum while also evading sophisticated adversarial signal interference. Even unintentional, non-adversarial interference is becoming increasingly prevalent, as signals must extend further than ever before to prepare for multinational, multidomain operations.
To respond to these electromagnetic challenges, the Army is reaching out to commercial organizations using multiple contracting methods and incentives—and even prize money— to give a modern twist to its go-to waveforms.
FLEXIBLE WAVES Government-developed waveforms are derived from military requirements, where the government can be the designer and developer of the product, or can provide the require- ments to vendors to port onto their radios. A commercial waveform is developed by a commercial company, which owns the intellectual property associated with the wave- form, and that company is responsible for software updates, bug fixes and initial testing.
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