Radios and Communications

Marines and Sailors with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Sailors with America Amphibious Ready Group received an opportunity to talk to family using their mobile phones aboard USS America, Aug. 24, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Jacob Pruitt)

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Marine Aircraft Group 13 (MAG-13) hosted a Jane Wayne Day event for the unit’s spouses aboard Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 16, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Lance Cpl. George Melendez)

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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brock Jerkins, radio operator and Capt. Michael Davidson, commanding officer, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, communicate via radio during Integrated Training Exercise 2-19 at Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 5, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Jacob Wilson)

US and NATO Radios Can't Talk to Each Other. The Air Force Wants to Change That

Air Force Research Labs is looking to make military radios interoperable.

A satellite communication operator with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command 19.1, adjusts a ground antenna transmit and receiver satellite transformer during an exercise on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 11, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Jeremy Laboy)

Marine Corps Searching for New Battlefield Communication System

The system must be capable of providing a "high-bandwidth transmission path used for voice, video and data communications."

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Titus Poulose of the 263rd Combat Communications Squadron with the North Carolina Air National Guard, operates communications equipment in support of Operation Deep Freeze (ODF), at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Dec. 6, 2018. (U.S. Air Force/Johnny Chiang)

As Russia, China Encroach, Airmen Work to Expand Comms Network in Antarctica

In freezing conditions on the southernmost continent, four airmen had one mission: Create an expanded communications network.

Capt. Tawanda Baxter and Flora Marshall, of Army Project Manager Mission Command, demonstrate the Tactical Interface Tracking Application Node at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, on Dec. 4, 2018. (U.S. Army/Dan Lafontaine)

New Army Tech Connects Commanders with Deployed Units

The Army is developing tactical software that will allow commanders to communicate effectively with forward-deployed units.

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Salty Dogs of Strike Aircraft Test Squadron (VX) 23 tests the Joint Precision Approach Landing System (JPALS) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. (Stephane Belcher/U.S. Navy)

Precision Ship-Landing System Could Be Game-Changer at Bare Airfields

JPALS could help take the guesswork out of landings at austere airfields with little infrastructure and in bad conditions.

Children from the Magnolia Village housing area on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, board the school bus Aug 7, 2017, on their way to school. (U.S. Air Force photo/Savannah G Stephens)

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The Marine Corps released a request for information for a suite of hearing enhancement devices to help Marines communicate better and increase their lethality on the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Ezekiel Kitandwe)

Marines Want New Headset That Will Amp Up Battlefield Sounds

Marine Corps Systems Command is looking to begin purchasing hearing enhancement devices as early as Fiscal Year 2020.

A technician inspects a land mobile radio on Joint Base Andrews, Md., Jan. 11, 2017. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Valentina Lopez)

SOCOM Supply Snafu Results in Millions of Dollars in Excess Gear

SOCOM has 4,420 more radios than it needs, among other items, an IG report finds.

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