FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)
was awarded a one-year, $1.34 million contract by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate in the initial phase of a
program to develop and enhance spectrum utilization techniques for wireless
communications.
The program is important to the Department of Defense because it will
increase the ability to communicate adaptively in what is increasingly
becoming a crowded and spectrum-limited environment.
"It is a critical issue in wireless communications that spectrum resources
need to be more efficiently utilized than they currently are," said Dr. Bob
Berezdivin, chief scientist of Raytheon's Information and Advanced Systems.
"Raytheon plans to develop new and enhanced techniques in Next Generation (XG)
wireless communications, thereby enabling the military to enhance the
capabilities to conduct network centric operations that increasingly depend on
effective wireless communications in a wide range of operational environments.
Shared spectrum techniques can also be a leap forward for commercial service
providers, where capacities are being limited by spectrum availability."
Through the implementation of this contract, Raytheon plans to develop and
later implement software-controlled techniques and mechanisms to enable
highly-efficient spectrum utilization and spectrum sharing between different
users and services, and thus in effect create more capacity to help meet the
needs and demands of current and new users.
The focus of the program is to develop appliques that would reside in
every communication system and possibly other transmitters (such as radars
sharing the same bands) to control system sense and characterize the RF
environment and transmit and receive parameters.
The DARPA contract will also allow Raytheon to play a key role in the
development of XG radio systems, specifically the radio system controls -- the
communications 'brains' of the future. Raytheon has been at the forefront in
developing and prototyping many advanced communications technologies for DARPA
and other advanced technology military organizations in programs such as
UltraComm, Advanced Joint C4ISR Node, FCS Communications, WolfPack, Digital
Video Broadcast System, PENTR, and others.
With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon Company is a global
technology leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, and
business and special mission aircraft.
Editors' note:
To learn more about the additional Raytheon-developed technologies listed
in this release, visit http://www.raytheon.com/c3i/c3iproducts/c3iprlist.htm.
Contact:
Louise Muniak
703.849.1635
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