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JEPO JTRS Demonstrates Design And Tactical Utility

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

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The Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) last week announced that the Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), a critical capability of the JTRS, successfully demonstrated its validated design and tactical utility June 3 and 4. Thirty ground mobile radios were used in the largest demonstration of the capability to date during the multi-node demonstration with senior service and Defesne Department officials at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C. "The Wideband Networking Waveform overcomes many…

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