KVH To Integrate TACNAV With US Army Digital Battlefield Program

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Middletown RI (SPX) Jul 15, 2004
KVH Industries Wednesday announced that it has been awarded $1 million in engineering funding by the US Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to expand the ability of KVH's TACNAV M100 GMENS navigation system to connect with the US Army's FBCB2 digital battlefield system.

Doing so will enable vehicles equipped with the TACNAV M100 GMENS, or Ground Mobility Enhanced Navigation System, to provide real-time, unjammable navigation and position data through the secure digital battlefield system to other friendly units, field commanders, and US military command and control centers.

"We are seeing a growing desire within the US military for its vehicles to connect to the FBCB2 digital battlefield and provide real-time position data that will improve both the overall situational awareness among troops and commanders as well as interoperability between US and allied troops," remarked Dan Conway, KVH's vice president for business development.

"Our TACNAV M100 GMENS is an ideal and affordable means of making this critical information available for a broad range of military vehicles."

KVH previously demonstrated its ability to integrate its TACNAV TLS system with the FBCB2 system aboard the US Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle. This new engineering contract is focused on enhancing TACNAV's integration capabilities and extending them to the TACNAV M100 GMENS system.

"A TACNAV M100 GMENS system with a robust, reliable interface to digital battlefield systems like FBCB2 will offer military planners and program managers a low-cost, extremely reliable solution to both the demand for always-available vehicle navigation and position data and the need for that information to be disseminated throughout the fighting force," concluded Conway.

"This expansion of our system capabilities could potentially facilitate the fielding of the TACNAV M100 GMENS beyond the US SOCOM vehicle fleet and across a wider population of US Army and allied vehicles."

The TACNAV M100 GMENS, already in full production for US SOCOM, was most recently used during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

While the TACNAV M100 GMENS complements the Global Positioning System (GPS), it operates independently of GPS thanks to the use of KVH's digital compass technology and proprietary software algorithms.

As a result, the TACNAV M100 GMENS continues to provide navigation, position, and heading data to the digital battlefield system, even if GPS is blocked, jammed, or is otherwise unavailable.

TACNAV systems have been sold for use aboard US Army, Marine Corps, and Navy vehicles as well as to many allied countries, including Canada, Sweden, Britain, Germany, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Italy.

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