CHANTILLY, Va., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Perspecta
Inc. (NYSE: PRSP) announced today that its innovative applied
research arm, Perspecta Labs, received a prime award for work on
low-cost, resilient tactical radio communications under the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Resilient Networked
Distributed Mosaic Communications (RN DMC) program. The contract,
which represents new work for the company, has a potential total
value of $18.5 million over a
45-month period of performance if all options are exercised.
The directional antennas and high-powered amplifiers currently
used to support long-range tactical communications in remote areas
are expensive and vulnerable to jamming and interference. The RN
DMC program aims to deliver resilient, long-range tactical
communications via self-forming, self-healing "mosaic" antennas
made up of small, low power and cost transceiver elements (tiles)
that can be hard-carried by warfighters and hosted on ground
vehicles, high-altitude platforms and satellites.
Perspecta Labs will prototype, implement, test and validate an
adaptive distributed array system solution that works with existing
tactical radios and unmodified tactical waveforms.
"We are excited to design, develop and demonstrate low-cost,
resilient long-range communications for challenging
non-line-of-sight radio environments," said Petros Mouchtaris,
Ph.D., president of Perspecta Labs. "With innovative use of tiles,
our solution will deliver a high-performance tactical radio
communications solution which is flexible, robust and has
significantly lower risk of detection, interference and
jamming."
Perspecta Labs' solution uses wideband distributed spatial
processing and a novel mechanism for joint signal processing and
networking to meet high-performance requirements at low size,
weight, power and cost. Experimental validation will progress from
the laboratory to a long-range ground-to-air link and relay field
exercises, which demonstrate communication over extremely
challenging links that are not supportable using conventional
tactical radio technology.
About Perspecta Inc.
At Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP), we question, we seek and we solve.
Perspecta brings a diverse set of capabilities to our U.S.
government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health
care and state and local markets. Our 280+ issued, licensed and
pending patents are more than just pieces of paper, they tell the
story of our innovation. With offerings in mission services,
digital transformation and enterprise operations, our team of
nearly 14,000 engineers, analysts, investigators and architects
work tirelessly to not only execute the mission, but build and
support the backbone that enables it. Perspecta was formed to take
on big challenges. We are an engine for growth and success and we
enable our customers to build a better nation. For more information
about Perspecta, visit perspecta.com.
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