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Northrop Grumman To Begin Production of Deployable Digital Wireless System

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Thursday, July 28th, 2011

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The Air Force has approved Northrop Grumman's [NOC] Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Wireless Distribution Module (WDM) for production, the company said. There are 140 WDM suites entering production for the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., following successful environmental and operational testing TDC WDM, which is designed for two-person teams, provides a line-of-sight extension of a local area network and a radio-frequency link extension of local Internet Protocol- based traffic to distribute network capability to…

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