An AI ‘Brain’ For Bandwidth: Peraton Nabs DoD Spectrum Award, Eyes JADC2
The OSCAR effort is designed do develop AI/ML software that can detect spectrum interference and re-route users to open comms channels in near real time.
The OSCAR effort is designed do develop AI/ML software that can detect spectrum interference and re-route users to open comms channels in near real time.
“Fundamentally, we do it the same way as noise canceling headphones; we listen to what the radio transmits and inject it in reverse in the radio, so the radio thinks that it doesn’t hear itself, and it can hear everything else” Joel Brand of Kumu Networks says.
Having awarded $600 million for 5G pilots at five bases in the US, the Pentagon will formally solicit for seven more in the coming months. But will 5G work in war zones?
"Our goal is that by the end of fall to have these test beds stood up, and industry working at those sites," Joseph Evans, DoD's technical director of 5G, says.
Four bases around the country will pioneer military use of the new high-speed communications network technology.
If you want to prototype 5G networks on a military base, you need to join the National Spectrum Consortium first. That’s an increasingly common model.