Overview of the small unit operations situational awareness system

Author

Randall, Alfred L. ; Walter, Robert C.

Author_Institution

SRA Int., Inc., Arlington, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

169

Abstract

Maintaining situational awareness and communications for small unit operations in urban areas is a technical and operational challenge as experienced by military units in Bosnia, Mogadishu and more recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. The urban environment, characterized by massive steel and concrete canyons, tunnels, hallways, and intense radio frequency energy, is especially challenging for point-to-point mobile communications. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a set of technologies that will enable the warfighter to maintain robust communications and situation awareness in urban areas as well as in open areas or dense vegetation. In this paper we present an overview of the DARPA small unit operations situational awareness system (SUO SAS) program, its objectives and methodology.

Keywords

military communication; mobile communication; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; combat communication system; military communication; military units; point-to-point mobile communications; small unit operations situational awareness system; urban environment; Global Positioning System; Military communication; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Robustness; Steel; Synthetic aperture sonar; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM '03. 2003 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8140-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290097

Filename

1290097