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JPEO Looks To Industry For JTRS-Capable Radios Able To Interface With Network Manager

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 12th, 2011

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The Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Network Enterprise Domain (NED) wants to form non-contract relationships with vendors of JTRS-capable radios to make them compatible with the JTRS Enterprise Network Manager (JENM). The notice, issued in FBODaily.com, is only to inform industry about the strategy and encourage participation. The JTRS Network Enterprise Domain is developing the JTRS Enterprise Network Manager (JENM), which allows planning, instantiation, management and over-the-air reconfiguration of tactical networks comprised of software-defined…

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