Fergie's Tech Blog

Defense Tech: U.S. Army Contract for New Signals Sniffer

Via UPI.

The U.S. Army has issued a $42 million contract for a new system that will help its surveillance aircraft track down enemy communications signals.

Lockheed Martin will provide 40 units of the system, known as CHALS-C, (short for Communications High Accuracy Location Sub-systems - Compact), which ferrets out the sources of modern-technology communications traffic, by 2009.

The key to CHALS-C is the increased speed at which it process intercepted signals, which allows air crews to detect multiple signal types simultaneously as opposed to earlier systems that could only process one signal at a time.

posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2006 12:22:00 PM