Coalition Joint Spectrum Management and Planning Tool (CJSMPT)
Lockheed Martin / CERDEC
CJSMPT visualization and planning tool enables
communications planners to automate and accelerate spectrum planning,
making it easier for troops to communicate while avoiding interference
from jamming operations.
CJSMPT will enable planners to better manage the spectrum by displaying
a real-time, three-dimensional view of frequency use in the battlespace
for land, air, and space emitters. For the long term, the system will
automate the planning and efficiently manage battlefield spectrum. A key
feature of CJSMPT is its faster-than-real-time simulation capability
that can predict and visualize potential interference from on-the-move
forces. Prior to this tool, military planners predicted interference
based on static analysis, which tended to cause overly pessimistic
solutions and loss of opportunity for spectrum reuse. By coordinating
all emitters and knowing their locations in a region, spectrum planners
will now be able to boost reuse and significantly increase communication
bandwidth to coalition forces.
The CJSMPT program is managed by the U.S. Army Communications-
Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC), and is
developed by Lockheed Martin under a $5.2 million contract awarded
September 2006. For
the first phase a semi-automated de-confliction tool will be deployed to
the theater in Southwest Asia within 11 months, to address urgent
requirements to de-conflict the effects of jamming and other critical
communications. In the subsequent phase a fully automated, networked
de-confliction capability will be deployed to all coalition forces in 11
months. |
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