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Upgrade will triple the satellite capacity for airborne radio terminals
by Staff Writers
Marlborough, MA (SPX) Feb 16, 2012


The ARC-231 radio participated successfully in numerous field operational test events hosted by DISA.

Raytheon is tripling the satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user. The enhancement is provided by an upgrade to Integrated Waveform (IW) software, following successful field tests hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Prior to the software upgrade, this form of radio communications had limited capacity, causing communication delays in theater.

The government's prior acceptance of the Phase 1 IW upgrade for its ARC-231 radios enabled Raytheon to implement this important Satellite Communication (SATCOM) enhancement, available to all U.S. Army Aviation aircraft and various U.S. Air Force aircraft.

"Raytheon offers the IW software upgrade at no cost to ARC-231 users," said David Patton, ARC-231 senior program manager for Raytheon's Network Centric Systems business.

"Furthermore, full backward compatibility is provided with this software update to minimize any changes to existing equipment installations. This approach is part of Raytheon's commitment to provide readily available, high-performance, high-quality products to the warfighters."

The present Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite system is reaching the end of its lifecycle.

In order to bridge the gap between the current system and the replacement system, which is the MUOS satellite constellation (Mobile User Objective System), the Defense Information Systems Agency has worked with Raytheon and other radio vendors in the development and rapid fielding of IW as the UHF SATCOM solution.

The ARC-231 radio participated successfully in numerous field operational test events hosted by DISA. As a result of these test events, along with extensive regression testing conducted by the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the ARC-231 radio received approval through the Joint Chiefs of Staff Office for the IW software fielding within the Department of Defense. Raytheon has since incorporated this upgrade into its current production radio.

New production radios as well as the more than 5,000 currently fielded ARC-231 radios can receive the IW enhancement via a software upgrade that can be implemented in theater.

This approach will have minimal impact on the deployed radios and will require minimal operator intervention, thus increasing mission capabilities. The upgrade will provide an increase of several hundred networks for ARC-231 SATCOM users.

Additional benefits over the current network are improved link margin, improved voice quality and a simpler setup procedure for ARC-231 operators.

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