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BAE Wins DARPA Contract for Communications Framework

Thursday, November 20th, 2014

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BAE Wins DARPA Contract for Communications Framework

Illustration demonstrating how the C2E program develops reliable networked communications. Image: BAE.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $3.2 million contract to BAE Systems to develop a new framework of jam-resistant, reliable networked communications as part of the Communications in Contested Environments (C2E) program, the company said on Thursday. The contract will develop a new open system architecture (OSA) for the first phase of the C2E program. The OSA will be designed to be more flexible than existing services, allowing new and more effective communications platforms to aid…

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