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GD Radios Successfully Connect With Manpack Radio In MUOS Test

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

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GD Radios Successfully Connect With Manpack Radio In MUOS Test

Four Digital Modular Radios (DMRs) on the right aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) supercarrier. Photo: U.S. Navy.

General Dynamics’ [GD] four-channel Digital Modular Radios (DMR) successfully completed a Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications test at the company’s MUOS test facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. in February, GD said on Monday.The DMR used the MUOS satellite communications and ground station simulator to complete voice calls and data transmissions to and from the DMR to an Army AN/PRC-155 two-channel Manpack radio.“The success of this test is important because it demonstrates the Navy’s work, in collaboration with the Army,…

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