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MILITARIES IN the Asia-Pacific wants the samethings any other militarywants from its TacticalCommunications Systems,

namely to be able to share data and integratecommand structures and enables high-speed,large-capacity, long-distance wireless relaytransmission coupled with equally capablebut shorter range more mobile systems withautomatic routing and relay capabilities forsimultaneous video, voice and data.

IndiaAmajor part of India’s military modernisationrevolves around tactical C4I with the countryestablishing demanding requirements butwith an overall approach that is fragmentedwith three different organisations, takingresponsibility for the three key programmes:Tactical Communications Systems, BattleManagement Systems (BMS) and F-INSAS.There are many, many lessons from the digiti-zation paths of other countries which probablynumber more than the lines of theMahabharat. Number one however is the needfor integration across multiple programmewith a single strong authority to do that.

Perhaps the centerpiece of current effortsis Project Aren or the TacticalCommunications Systems programme whichwill provide the links that will connect India’sCorps and Army level headquarters down toregiment and battalion level initially equip-

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The dismounted element to India’s BMSprogramme will need to be deconflicted withthe C4I requirements in Phase 3 of the country’slater F-INSAS work © AJB

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ping seven Army Crops – three Strike Corpsand four Mountain Corps although this isseen as just the start.After multiple false starts, Expression of

Interest (EoI) were sent out to eight companies:BEL, ITI, ICIL, Tata, L&T, WIPRO, Rolta andHCL with whom overseas firms will team. Therequirement has not been released in detail tonon-Indian firms but it is expected to be morecapability led than the original 2006 require-ment which was seen as prescriptive and rigid.Although the teaming for the bids is meant tobe fixed, it is expected that teaming will remainfluid even after down select.There is no official schedule to date but

responses to the Spring RFP is expected to leadto a downselect in early 2012 to two. The twowill then go through an 18 month process,funded at a 80:20 government:industry basiswhich would total $200m. There will be trialand evaluation in order to judge that thesystem is compliant and then an RFP willbe issued.A contract could be let as early as mid

2013 but more likely this will be 2014 and isvalued at $2-2.4billion.In a further complication for TCS, there is

still an HCLOS requirement that was award-ed to PEL but the solution does not meet therequirement and it is being rebid. Therequirement was due to operate in advanceof TCS.India also has a Battle Management

System (BMS) project, a little behind thetimelines of TCS and is valued at $2.5billion.The system is both vehicles mounted and hasa dismounted requirement with the require-ment for simultaneous voice data and video.An EoI was not yet released at the time of theBangalore Airshow but were expected byApril. It is considered that India’s DUCH

intercom programme may be folded intoBMS. A key omission in BMS plans to date isthe absence of details of which legacy radioswill be required to be integrated.India’s BMS programme once had a com-

munications element but this has been trans-ferred to an independent programme. TheEoI for the resulting Army SDR pro-gramme which is for a JTRS GroundMobile Radio type solution, isexpected to be issued in 1Q2011 withan RFP in 2013 with a requirement

for an estimated 1700 radios. BEL and the Indian Government

have been working on a tactical SDRmanpack design for the past 18 monthswith a throughput of 1Mbps with1MHz of bandwidth which will com-plete evaluation in 2011. BEL’s

Chairman said all evaluationswould be complete by June. BELsaid that this would replace thecurrent STARS-V VHF CNR,LUP329 UHF CNR and VPSMk3 VHF handheld. Plans for ahandheld SDR are expected to becompleted in 2012. The RFP for the Indian Air

Force’s (IAF) SDR programmewas planned for Oct 2010but wasn’t issued at thetime of Aero India. Theplan is for a no cost, nocommitment evaluationtrials. It will only be atthat point that the IAF willrelease which aircraft willreceive it. A further complication

lies in the F-INSAS pro-gramme, lead by theinfantry. The third phaseof this programmeinvolves a C4I elementwhose timelines andrequirement overlap butprecedes those of the BMSprogramme.Irrespective of tradition-

al concerns in Indian pro-curement about delays intimelines, perhaps thebiggest challenges in the

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Selex Communications SWavefamily of SDRs is one of severaladvanced products being offeredin the region © AJB

procurement plan is to reconcile the integra-tion challenge between the three critical pro-grammes.

AustraliaElbit is the prime contractor on Australia’sLAND 125 Phase 3A Dismounted BattleGroup and Below Command, ControlCommunication System which will 1,501BMS-dismounted and 164 dismounted com-mand posts to the ADF. The company is alsothe lead on LAND 75 Phase 3.4, which willdeliver a vehicle mounted BMS. Together,the two programmes are commonly referredto as ‘Land 200’.

The contract was signed on 15 March 2010with Elbit Systems Limited. The IOC for

Land 75 and 125 is planned for the secondhalf of this year with the equipping and train-ing of a combat team with a complete forma-tion with 7 Brigade being equipped in 2013.

The first project is delivering a dismount-ed BMS into a Brigade Group in support ofthe Network Centric Warfare Milestone 2 –Networked Battle Group 2011.

Australia has chosen to integrate the BMSwith communications elements. For Land 125Phase 3A, the transport layer for Elbit D-BMSare being provided by Harris AN/PRC-152and Raytheon EPLRS MicroLight radios.

The BMS and the communications capa-bility for Land 75 were separated in a projectin 2006 with theMounted BMS element beingtaken from JP2072 Battlespace

Communications System-Land (BCS-L) withwhich Land 125 now works closely, althoughthe former is focused on CNRs under Phase 1Falcon III AN/PRC-152(C) multiband hand-held radios and their in-vehicle adaptors, butalso includes AN/PRC-117G wideband,AN/PRC-117F multi-band and AN/PRC-150(C) HF manpack radios. Australiahas`moved area communications to laterphases such as Phase 2B which will seeBCS(L) Area and Tactical Range ExtensionNodes being fielded via transit cases, trailersbased, vehicle OTM based and even smallISO container based communications solu-tions and expected to include conventional

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Harris’ RF-7800W is amajor player in TCSprogrammes © AJB


GCLOS radio relays. Troposcatter solutionsto replace the capability currently providedunder Project Parakeet. For Phase 2B a ‘FirstPass’ procurement is expected in 2011 withthe Operational Concept and RFT developedwith industry feedback. Phase 2A of JP2072will provide Mobile Systems Segment of

BCS-L, whose capabilities include new com-bat radio systems, tactical data radio systemsand tactical HF and satellite radios.In March, Harris were awarded a $11m

order for the AN/PRC-152(C) handheldand vehicular radio system and RF-300M-TV Trimline Vehicular AdaptersBattlespace Communications System tomeet ADF's objectives, including network-ing the Adaptive Army.

Republic of KoreaWork began in earnest on South Korea’sTactical Information CommunicationNetwork (TICN) in 2009 after several years of

study contracts which have been lead bySamsung Thales and LIG Nex1 was in chargeof TMMR, while Huneed was a main contrac-tor for HCTR and has looked in detail aboutthe application of WiBRO mobile multi-hoptechnology provide extended coverage thatgoes beyond 20km provide high data ratethat exceeds 400Mbps, and enhanced celledge performance, with elements includingthe High Capacity Trunk Radio (HCTR),Tactical Multi-band and Multi-role Radio(TMMR) and Network Management System(NMS). TICN will replace the legacy Spidersystem which is effectively limited to stillimages and voice data with the systems viathe KAN/GRC-512(V) Electronic CountCounter Measures (ECCM) radio with itsdata transmission speed improved from2Mbps to 4Mbps.

Po ShengTaiwan continues to aspire to extend itsheadquarters level Po Sheng or BroadVictory programme, down to tactical levels.The Po Sheng programme was originally a$2.3 billion modernization effort, launched in2003 and designed to enhance the C4ISRcapabilities of the Taiwanese military, con-trolled by the central military command, theJoint Operations Control Center (JOCC).Since then there has been a desire to increasethe scope of the command links down to thebattalion and even company level althoughlittle has come of this to date.

BruneiBrunei’s C4I network is very much a TCSwaiting to happen. The order for a JointOperations Centre (JOC) command and con-trol capability from Northrop Grummanannounced was announced in January 2010and based on Command and Control for PC(C2PC) and Interoperable C4I Services (ICS)but is currently limited to a high level head-quarters. The aspiration is to extend itsreach down to the tactical level and a rangeof Harris CNRs were acquired at around thesame time, which could cover the voice anddata requirements at the lowest tacticallevel, there remains a need for high capabil-ity links if the competition for effective net-worked C2 is to be realised.

Tactical CommunicationsSystems programme whichwill provide the links thatwill connect India’s Corpsand Army level headquarters

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The Tactical Information CommunicationNetwork programme will transform howcommand and control are exercised on theKorean Peninsula © DoD

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PakistanLocal firms Global Industrial and DefenceSolutions IDS showed their Integrated BMSIBMS) at IDEX which began trial on PAF AlKhalid tanks in early 2011. The transportlayer for IBMS is provided by the company’sSpread Spectrum Radio which provides datarates of 96-112Kbps at a frequency band of416-440MHz with both point to point andPoint to Multi-Point Capabilities and a line ofsight range of 10km.Rohde and Schwarz launched their new

Modular Multi-role Radio System at IDEX,originally developed for the Pakistan mili-tary for Air Traffic and was fielded in 2010. Itconsists of two ‘cubes’ equipped with M3XRtechnology. The system is ready to go withfour clicks. MMRS is equally suitable for useas field headquarters, a mobile ATC system,a radio station and a relay station.

International offeringsAs the market for communication systemsgrows, so international firms are gravitat-ing to the region with their latestcommunications solutions.In the ground tactical sector,

SELEX Communications exhibited at theSWave radio and the WRS504 vehicular tacti-cal radio with WiMax technology at Avalaon2011. Thales is also active in the region, oneof the first customers for its FlexNet radio,developed with Rockwell Collins is a leadingmilitary in the region. Thales’ F@stnet radiois made under license in Malaysia. A recentdevelopment in term of the F@stnet wave-forms has been the introduction of the super-max waveform which offers a 21.6Kbps fre-quency hopping data only mode that drops

to 9.6Kbps when simultaneously enablingvoice communications.Elbit’s radios sell widely in the Asia

Pacific with its latest radio beginning to betrialled and fielded. Elbit Systems 50W SDR-7200opertes in VHF at 30 to 88 MHz an UHFin 200 to 528/700 MHz and is part of theIDF’s Digital Army Programme. TheWaveform’s used include the 115kbps HDRwaveform used in the CNR-9000 HDR VHFradio. In part, it builds on the contractor'searlier High Data Rate (HDR) waveformwhich is supplemented by a MANET wave-form supporting data rates of up to 8Mbps.Elbit launched the SDR-7200AR at Aero India

which feature embedded avionics relatedfeatures and supports multiplefrequency bands, includingVHF, UHF, L-Band, S-Bandand SATCOM. The company’sMilitary IP Radio launched in2010 had data rates of up to13.3 Mbps and is designed tocope with the Doppler effectsof communications to and from

rotary wing aviation and has PTPand PTMP. Primarily a data solution itcan also supports VoIP as well as

MANET and ECCM waveforms.

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An EoI for the Army’s SDRprogramme is expected in2011 with an RFP due in 2013with a requirement for anestimated 1700 radios © AJB

The IDF’s digitization programme has fedinto a number of Elbit’s international offerings© Elbit Systems

India’s BMS programmeonce had a communicationselement but this hasbeen transferred to anindependent programme


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