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Martin-led Mobile User Objective System (MOUS) team is on-schedule
toward completion of the Critical Design Reviews (CDR) phase
in March 2007, where the detailed design of the U.S. Navy's
MOUS is examined, ensuring all requirements are met. The ground
system and terminal waveform software developed by team member
General Dynamics C4 have recently passed the CDR for all segments
of the ground system as well as the terminal waveform software
to be inserted into waveform libraries to be used in future
JTRS radios. When fielded, MOUS will establish the U.S. military's
next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications
system.
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User terminals
will be provided to the U.S. military under the Joint Tactical
Radio System with an emphasis on handheld units. The MUOS system
will provide familiar cell phone-like services with the satellites
acting as "towers" in space, enabling warfighters
on the ground to communicate directly with each other and their
commanders virtually anywhere in the world. When the system
is deployed, MUOS terminals will be communicating with MUOS
satellites, providing ground combat elements with on-the-move
secure end-to-end communications.
he MOUS ground system will feature the ground transport and
infrastructure, network management, geolocation services and
satellite control). MOUS satellites will employ both Wideband
Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) and legacy Ultra High
Frequency Follow-on (UFO) payload communications capabilities,
providing a significant increase in capacity with the WCDMA
payload and continuity of legacy UFO communications. The satellites
will provide communications with ground terminals and enable
connection to the Global Information Grid (GIG). The Navy's
Program Executive Office for Space Systems and its Communications
Satellite Program Office are responsible for the MUOS program.
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