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The Security Summit Innovation in Communications: Warfighter’s Perspective Larry Troffer Senior Principal Engineer, RF C

The Security Summit Innovation in Communications: Warfighter’s Perspective Larry Troffer Senior Principal Engineer, RF Communications Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity 10 March 2010

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The Security Summit Innovation in Communications: Warfighter’s Perspective Larry Troffer Senior Principal Engineer, RF C

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  1. The Security Summit Innovation in Communications: Warfighter’s Perspective Larry Troffer Senior Principal Engineer, RF Communications Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity 10 March 2010 This presentation represents the opinions of the presenter and is endorsed neither by the United States Marine Corps nor the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity 1

  2. The Nature of Warfare Has Changed . . . New Adversaries – extremist groups pursuing trans-national ideological interests; criminals undermining government to engage in illicit activity; disenfranchised “patriots” conducting insurgency against legitimate government New Missions – Use of military forces for disaster relief; evacuation of non-combatants in suddenly-hostile environments New Warfare – Asymmetric warfare; information warfare; cyber-warfare; terrorism And American Fighting Forces Have Adapted . . .

  3. Marine Corps – small units on sustained operations at remote distances from supporting base/parent command implications for communicating . . .

  4. Military Comm Reliable, secure, interoperable But – heavy, power-hungry, complicated. Provides suitable, sufficient communications for larger units manned with trained communicators.

  5. Under emerging warfighting concepts, communications needs at the small unit increase. But the ability to carry heavy, bulky equipment does not. Can commercial cell/wireless technology be applied? Not as is. Insecure. Infrastructure not available. Not interoperable with preponderance of battlefield communications. But advantages would exist. Small, lightweight handset Huge advantage in power requirements/batteries User familiarity; Killer Apps

  6. Can commercial cell phones/PDAs be modified to interoperate with tactical radio systems? Perhaps - with modification to both.

  7. Possible Enabler: Software Defined Radio • Software Communications Architecture (SCA) • Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) • COTS SCA-Compliant Radios Challenges Communications Security Transmission Security Re-architect from Centralized Fixed Infrastructure to Distributed Peer-Peer Connections Relatively Small Market Availability of Trusted Sources

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