{"id":34877,"date":"2020-09-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/21\/new-us-army-radios-show-anti-jam-progress-at-network-experiment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:16:11","slug":"new-us-army-radios-show-anti-jam-progress-at-network-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/09\/21\/new-us-army-radios-show-anti-jam-progress-at-network-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"New US Army radios show anti-jam progress at network experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army is seeing improvements in anti-jam capabilities in new radios crucial to securing manned-unmanned communications at its annual Network Modernization Experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At NetModX \u201920, which runs from late July to early October<\/a> at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, the Army\u2019s Combat Capabilities Development Command\u2019s C5ISR Center \u2014 or Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center \u2014 is testing the resiliency of the new radios. The effort will help the service observe how they would perform in the field as the Army looks to partner humans and machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial data from the event suggests the two companies involved \u2014 Silvus <\/a>and Persistent Systems \u2014 have improved their radio capabilities from last year, specifically in regard to anti-jam, according to Daniel Duvak, chief of the C5ISR Center\u2019s Radio Frequency Communications division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one major challenge is making the radios less detectable as the Army\u2019s tactical network team starts to focus on command post survivability \u2014 or reducing the electromagnetic signature of command post communications \u2014 while not sacrificing latency and throughput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you want to make it less detectable, you know oftentimes you have to trade off the throughput or the range or one of those other products,\u201d Duvak said. \u201cSo that\u2019s the piece and the real technical challenge that they\u2019re continuing to work on over the next few months. We\u2019ve seen progress that they\u2019ve made in those areas, but that\u2019s the piece that they\u2019re still working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Stevens, an electronics engineer at the Radio Frequency Communications division, told C4ISRNET that the radios are an important piece of the next-generation combat vehicle. And Duvak said the Army\u2019s tactical network modernization team \u2014 made up of the Network Cross-Functional Team and Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical \u2014 wants to use the radios as a mid-tier radio solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\t