Soldier Communication For Enhance Situational Awareness - JTRS

Col John Zavarelli, Program Manager, Human Man Pack and Small Form Fit, Joint Tactical Radio Systems, JPEO JTRS delivers an update on how the program has entered Low rate initial production.

The radios which provide greater situational awareness have been fielded to small squads and are already making strides to network the soldier. Soldier modernization relies on soldier communication and the handheld and rifleman radio, which now use the soldier radio waveform, are already making a great impact.

Col Zavarelli was speaking at the Soldier Technology conference in Washington DC

Soldier Technology: Thank you very much for joining us today. John, we really appreciate you being down here at Soldier?s Technology and explain the latest JTRS kit. I just wanted to ask you, you mentioned that this is a real game changer in your presentation yesterday. What are the key things that make it a game changer?

Col John Zavarelli: Well, what we believe is, is we are providing a capability, a network capability, a new network capability down to the individual soldier. And we have entered this ne era of the network soldier. And the radios that I am showing here, to include the Rifleman Radio which is issued to the individual rifleman, the squads, the small unit. And then the Man Pack Radio, which is a company and below asset as well, will provide that dismounted soldier, the most disadvantaged soldier with a game changing capability. This will allow him to conduct his mission more effectively, he will have more survivability and likely to be able to be more lethal because of what the radio allows him to do with either voice or data communications.

Soldier Technology: The long term so far, in ten years time, what impact do you see this having on the soldier? What real changes is it going to make, do you think?

Col John Zavarelli: Yes. The soldiers are very excited about having a basic voice position location and data transport radio. And the radio uses the soldier radio waveform, which allows data to go over. And what we found is, in addition to just having basic voice and PLI going out, when an end user device, such as the one pictured here, is coupled to the transport layer radio, it allows them to use applications and other situational awareness tools that give them real time mission command capabilities and enhance their situational awareness.

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Source: http://www.soldiermodernisationblog.com/2012/09/soldier-communication-for-enhance.html

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