A -- NEXT GENERATION (XG) COMMUNICATION PROGRAM

Notice Date

August 14, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL -- Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514

ZIP Code

13441-4514

Description

Technical POCs: Mr. Ralph Kohler, AFRL/SNRT, Facsimile, (315) 330-2528, Email Ralph.Kohler@rl.af.mil (Email contact preferred) or Dr. Paul Kolodzy, DARPA Advanced Technology Office, Facsimile, (703) 696-9781, Email: kolodzy@darpa.mil (Email contact preferred) Addresses: AFRL/SNRT, 26 Electronic Pkwy, Rome NY 13441; DARPA/ATO, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Technology Office, and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate intends to further pursue enabling communications and sensors technologies via the Next Generation (XG) Communications Program. This Notice provides potential sources with advanced information that may be useful in preparing concepts for submission, if and when a solicitation is issued for this Program. The XG Communications Program is intended to demonstrate enabling technologies and system concepts to improve spectral utilization of military radio frequency emitters by a factor of 20. These demonstrations will include demonstrating a low power/wideband spectrum sensor, time/frequency agile waveforms, and dynamic spectrum access and control. At its completion, the Program will have developed and demonstrated an appliqu? for legacy and future emitter systems for joint service utility. The Program will develop enabling technologies and system concepts to provide assured military communications and sensors in support of worldwide, short notice deployments through the dynamic redistribution of allocated spectrum. This research will have significant impact on a wide variety of existing and future communications and sensors systems in DoD and commercial environments. This research is also expected to provide a common technical architecture that can meet the needs of both military and civilian future (beyond 3G) mobile communications systems. This Program will require the involvement of a variety of Government (Joint and Service Laboratories) and commercial technology development centers. It is anticipated that a Broad Agency Announcement will be released in the Fall/Winter CY01 timeframe.

Web Link

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