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Since the company's founding in 2001, San Diego Research Center, Inc. (SDRC), has established itself as a leader in Defense Wireless communications by inventing, implementing, and integrating complete systems suited for the most challenging military environments. Leveraging their founders' extensive experience and strong staff competencies in Systems Engineering, Waveforms, Networks and Program Management, SDRC has built areas of expertise encompassing advanced modems, innovative networking, systems solutions, and more. With a history of excellence as Lead System Integrator (LSI) in Defense Wireless Communications, SDRC's research and development builds on company successes to further enrich its complete system solutions.
Argon ST, Inc. (NASDAQ: STST) acquired San Diego Research Center Incorporated (SDRC), effective July 3, 2006, for approximately $41 million in cash. For more information, see: http://www.argonst.com/news/SDRCnews/07062006.htm
Operational Test-Tactical Engagement System (OT-TES) supports operational testing and evaluation of Army weapon systems, doctrine and tactics. Data is collected while monitoring, controlling, and recording force-on-force engagements that occur in a battlefield environment. OT-TES is the replacement for Mobile Automated Instrumentation Suite (MAIS). The project develops a spectrally efficient wireless communications system and player unit instrumentation for dismounted troops (DMT), ground vehicles and helicopters. The DMT unit uses a wireless personal network to support the soldier's instrumented individual or crew-served weapons.
The OT-TES Communications Upgrade dramatically improves overall spectrum efficiency by moving "functions" such as time-space-position indication and voice, away from multiple RF data link-based systems to a packet-switched wireless network that supports all applications. Features of the OT-TES network subsystem include:
At the heart of OT-TES hardware is the Core Transceiver: a compact, frequency agile, software-defined-radio platform that implements the OT-TES spectrally efficient waveform and network. The Core Transceiver operates over a wide RF spectrum but in narrow "chunks", allowing easy adaptation to a variety of requirements and conditions. Features include:
OT-TES is intended to ultimately support more than 3000 live participants in field exercises with potentially additional thousands of virtual participants. It will be the first system of its kind to replace older laser pairing systems with so-called "geometric pairing" techniques, providing a radical improvement in simulation fidelity. OT-TES will feed technology and design solutions into the Army's OneTESS program, which is destined to become the replacement system for all MILES-based training systems such as those used at the National Training Center and Joint Readiness Training Center.
In addition, the wireless network and its Core Transceiver excel in tactical communications environments ranging from ground-based embedded-sensor systems to Unattended Vehicles such as robots and aircraft.
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