Cassidian develops electronics for German Army's new mobile communications system
[Johannesburg, 14 May 2012] -
Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has paved the way for the overall integration of the German Armed Forces' new software-defined radio communications system (“KommSysBw”) by delivering the system's first electronic components in due time. The project, called “SVFuA” (“Streitkräftegemeinsame Verbundfähige Funkgeräte-Ausstattung” – inter-connectable joint-services radio equipment), is intended to optimise the Bundeswehr's jam-resistant mobile voice and data communications in the coming decade, particularly in missions abroad.“Secure mobile communications are a necessary precondition for the protection of our soldiers,” explains Dr Rolf Wirtz, head of the Military Mission Systems unit at Cassidian. “Thanks to our experience with super-high frequency equipment and the use of new technology, for example, on the basis of gallium nitride, we are in a position to offer an excellent solution for the most complex component of the new radio system.”The SVFuA project is being developed by Hagenuk Marinekommunikation, TDS, Rohde & Schwarz, Telefunken Racoms and Cassidian, with each of them acting as an independent contractor. Cassidian's package covers the development of a broadband transmit and receive module.
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