Voice over Blue Force Tracking

Author

Cummings, Brian ; Zimmerman, Terrance ; Robinson, Bruce ; Snyder, Michael

Author_Institution

The MITRE Corp., Huntsville, AL

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The United States Army Aviation community requested that MITRE examine the possibility of transmitting beyond line of sight (BLOS) voice over the preexisting blue force tracking (BFT) infrastructure for properly equipped Apache A model helicopters. BFT is a low bandwidth satellite based command and control system originally intended to provide situational awareness for the platforms and command centers possessing this technology. By slightly enhancing the current BFT transceiver configuration on the helicopter and at the ground units while integrating a low data rate audio processing unit, MITRE proved successful in transmitting intelligible audio in pseudo real time utilizing less then 1300 bps

Keywords

aircraft communication; command and control systems; helicopters; military communication; satellite communication; tracking; transceivers; voice communication; Apache A model helicopters; BFT transceiver; BLOS; MITRE; United States Army Aviation community; audio processing unit; beyond line of sight; low bandwidth satellite; voice over blue force tracking; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Central Processing Unit; Cities and towns; Codecs; Command and control systems; Helicopters; Linear predictive coding; Satellites; Vocoders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302173

Filename

4086799