Lockheed Martin [LMT] performed its first successful Joint Tactical Radio network demonstration for the Navy, transmitting Internet-Protocol enabled data and video communications, the company said recently.
Using a Joint Tactical Pre-Engineering Development Model (pre-EDM) radio, the team extended the Navy’s existing network via wireless communications. The demonstration verified the technical maturity of the Airborne & Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) network.
AMF JTRS is designed to allow troops to seamlessly share secure (NSA Type 1) voice, data, and video communications, in real-time.
“We conducted this interoperability demonstration to underscore the critical role that AMF JTRS will play in allowing Joint Forces to communicate,” said Mark Norris, Vice President for Joint Tactical Network Solutions with Lockheed Martin’s IS&GS-Defense.
During the exercise at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Combined Test Bed Laboratory, the Lockheed Martin team, supported by Northrop Grumman [NOC], integrated an AMF Pre-EDM Joint Tactical Radio with the Shipboard Automated Digital Network System (ADNS), which is the backbone for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Maritime Communications System. The AMF JTRS radio transmitted Maritime command and control applications data, messages, live streaming video, and real-time situational awareness data from the shipboard network to another shipboard workstation.
Lockheed Martin’s AMF JTRS team includes BAE Systems, General Dynamics [GD], Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon [RTN].