The Army has selected the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) radios to support the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1 experiment at Fort Bliss, Texas. The WNaN team consists of DARPA; Raytheon ‘s [RTN] BBN Technologies, which provides the applications, networking and integration capabilities for this next generation platform; and Cobham Sensor Systems LLC, which supplies innovative, low cost hardware. The WNaN radio provides a robust mobile ad hoc network with dynamic spectrum access, which…
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