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Special Project Office (SPO) Project 2

Background

  • Provide air and space integration acquisition and engineering analyses in support of RC-135 (Rivet Joint, Combat Sent, Cobra Ball) airborne reconnaissance systems
     
  • RC-135 fleet is the Air Force's dedicated theater intelligence collection and dissemination systems specializing in SIGINT and MASINT

Approach & Capabilities

  • Integrated data movement architecture (IDMA) development for common communications architecture for special mission aircraft
     
  • Communications architecture requirements matrix to capture common needs, enable cost-benefit analyses
     
  • Transmit/Receive Antenna System development support for low-cost, SATCOM-based connectivity
     
  • Shared, fused situational awareness architecture content
     
  • Remote collection operations

Technology

  • Wideband satellite communications architectures
     
  • Wideband, multiple access data links
     
  • Dynamic access networking
     
  • Wideband airborne SATCOM antennas
     
  • Advanced modulation schemes