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By Bethany Crudele - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Aug 12, 2012 18:47:14 EDT
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory is developing radios and communication systems to speed the flow of information ? both voice and data ? between ground forces and commands.
Emerging technologies will allow combat commanders to instantly relay decisions about operations, intelligence and logistics, according to Warfighting Lab officials.
Members of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, and Combat Logistics Battalion 6 tested the equipment July 30 during the Enhanced Marine Air-Ground Task Force Operations Limited Objective Experiment 2.2, at Fort Pickett, Va.
One of the featured devices is a tactical handheld radio, the TrellisWare-230 CheetahNet-II, which creates a multi-channel communication network the instant a Marine turns it on. Each radio within the network acts as a signal repeater and expands the range for sending and receiving data.
?The difference between our current radios and this radio is that this forms a voice and data network,? said Capt. Bobby Gruber, deputy head of the C4 Branch at the Warfighting Lab.
Units on the ground can maintain communication despite line-of-sight challenges within a radio frequency range.
?This radio creates a mobile, ad hoc network,? Gruber said. It ?allows you to repeat your transmission through other radios until it gets to the person it?s destined for.?
GPS information via an in-network antenna can be overlaid onto a map, providing location info for ground units and commands.
Also demonstrated was a small, lightweight, push-to-talk radio, the Distributed Tactical Communications System, which could provide Marines with expanded on-the-move communication.
?Normally you?re limited to a couple of miles with a VHF radio,? Gruber said. ?This thing gives you a range of roughly 300 miles.?
The radio instantly connects with satellites, so Marines won?t need to stop to set up standard satellite communications. An integrated GPS transmits location information back to command.
?You can be moving on a patrol, key the mike and talk 300 miles back to a ship. ? You don?t have to stop,? Gruber said.
During a mock medevac scenario at the demonstration, Marines used a handheld radio system, Expeditionary Combat Casualty Care, to send and receive information about the patient to doctors at a field hospital. A touch screen allows the user to show the point of injury, relay the patient?s vitals, take photographs and select a method of treatment before the wounded Marine is transported out of theater.
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