CAMP PENDLETON, Calif (June 15, 2023) --Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the final Phase 1 Initial Prototype 5G testbed variant for the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution (OSIRIS) to the U.S. Marine Corps at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, and will begin mobile network experimentation. OSIRIS is a 5Gcommunications network infrastructure testbed for expeditionary operations experimentation for the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s (OUSD R&E) FutureG & 5G Office and the Marine Corps that was awarded to Lockheed Martin in 2021. (Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin)
By Cal Biesecker |
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1 year ago |
08/31/2023
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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered the initial prototype of a 5G testbed to the Marine Corps at Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., for mobile network experimentation, the company said on Thursday.

Delivery of the testbed follows a $19.3 million contract Lockheed Martin received in late 2021 from the Defense Department for the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution (OSIRIS) (Defense Daily, Feb. 17, 2022).

The experimentation phase will involve specific mission applications onto the OSIRIS testbed, and the assessment of emerging wireless technology for potential use. Phase 2 will end with three 5G standalone network configurations, including a trailer-mounted 5G Nomadic Tower, an all-terrain vehicle-mounted 5G mobile relay, and a transit case deployable 5G operational facility.

OSIRIS is part of Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL effort that seeks to leverage commercial technologies and providers to meet 21

st Century warfighter needs and help fulfill the Defense Department’s vision for joint all domain operations.

“The Lockheed Martin-led team, in close partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps has proven that quickly evolving 5G commercial technology can be leveraged in near real-time to solve current and emergent mission challenges,” Deon Viergutz, vice president for Lockheed Martin Spectrum Convergence, said in a statement. “The OSIRIS program is leveraging Lockheed Martin’s experience maturing vendor-interoperable solutions based on open standards, which will enable a wide variety of composable 5G solutions tailored to any mission and platform.”

Intel Corp. [INTC], Radisys Corp. [RSYS] and Rampart Communications are subcontracting to Lockheed Martin for the testbed. The second phase of the experiment will last 15 months and conclude with a technology demonstration as part of a Fleet Marine Force event in the Southern California region.

Lockheed Martin said that to get to the experimentation phase, the team integrated an open radio unit with the company’s hybrid base station that runs on Intel’s FlexRAN reference software and hardware that includes Intel Xeon processors, ethernet adapters, and accelerators.