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L-3 Announces Procurement Of Ku-Band COTM Antenna Systems By US Army's JSIC
New York (SPX) Oct 04, 2005 L-3 Communications has announced that U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Command (JFCOM/JSIC) has procured three L-3 Communications Ku-Band Communications-On-The-Move (COTM) satellite terminal antenna systems. The COTM SATCOM terminals will initially be used by the United States Army in proof-of-concept exercises and, later, fielded into an operational theater. The purchase culminates successful demonstrations conducted and evaluated by the JSIC. During those COTM demonstrations, L-3's antenna system never lost contact with the satellite, and successfully illustrated the capability to provide a variety of uninterrupted communication services including, secure telephone Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), two-way Video Teleconferencing (VTC) using "Netmeeting", two-way InfoWorkSpace (IWS) collaboration and "whiteboarding", and open internet browsing while moving over rough terrain. "This initial antenna system acquisition is of a limited quantity," said Ron Gorda, president of L-3's Information Products Division. "Its importance, however, lies in the validation of antenna pointing and tracking technologies that will equip warfighters with high-data rate, beyond-line-of-sight connectivity, in an off-road, on-the-move environment. All of these are likely to be instrumental in the achievement of true Network Centric Operations capability." L-3's Information Products Division designed and developed the antenna and tracking system, while base band and Human Machine Interface (HMI) elements were provided by other manufacturers. In a related development, L-3's Ku Band COTM antenna system has also recently received an experimental Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to operate in a non-spread mode anywhere in the continental United States. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Read the latest in Military Space Communications Technology at SpaceWar.com
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