Army To Test Manpack Radio's Connectivity To Navy Satellites

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 14, 2015 at 3:27 PM
The Army is scheduled next week to begin a series of tests aimed at determining the Manpack radio's ability to connect geographically dispersed soldiers by way of a Navy-managed satellite constellation. Soldiers will conduct mock operations at Ft. Drum, NY, Ft. Bragg, NC, and Ft. Lewis, WA, starting Oct. 19 and stretching into next month, Col. James Ross, the program manager for tactical radios told Inside the Army Wednesday at the annual conference of the Association of the United...

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