RT
Logic Awarded Combat
Survivor/Evader Locator
Modulator/Receiver Processor (Cmrp)
By Boeing
March 19, 2008
RT Logic, announced a contract
award by The Boeing Company’s
Command, Control and
Communications
(C3) Networks Division in
support of the Combat
Survivor/Evader Locator (CSEL)
Modulator/Receiver
Processor (CMRP) project.
Boeing C3 Networks of Huntington
Beach, California, is the prime
contractor working the CSEL
effort
for the U.S. Air Force. Under
the CSEL CMRP effort, RT Logic
will deliver their Telemetrix
400XR
(T400XR) Modulator/Receiver
system as part of the CSEL
Terrestrial Training System (CTTS).
Boeing’s
CSEL
system allows rescue forces to
communicate with downed airmen
anywhere in the world via
overthe-horizon communications
satellites. RT Logic received
the CSEL CMRP order in November
2007,
with the delivery of five,
T400XR-based CMRPs planned for
late summer of 2008. Each CMRP
will have
one modulator/demodulator stream
per unit and operate within the
UHF band for RF signal input and
output.
The
T400XR is RT Logic’s premier
narrowband, receiver and
modulator product. It employs
digital receiver and modulator
technology to meet multi-mission
narrowband requirements. The
T400XR has a
configurable software-defined
receiver/modulator, and supports
most of the popular demodulation
and
modulation schemes such as BPSK,
QPSK, SQPSK, UQPSK, SOQPSK, and
SQPN (spread spectrum)
signals. Data rates ranging to
50 Mbps are supported under
certain demodulation schemes.
Demodulation
processing is supplemented by
bit synchronization, a variety
of forward error correction (FEC)
methods,
and PCM code conversion. The
modulation capability of the
T400XR enables PCM simulation,
command
processing, Bit Error Rate
Testing (BERT), or ranging as
required. The T400XR can be
configured to
operate at an intermediate
frequency (70 MHz), or have
modular frequency converters
integrated into the
T400XR’s Compact PCI (cPCI)
enclosure, thus allowing
operation on UHF, L, S, X, C,
and Ku bands.
"Our
excellent working relationship
with Boeing engineers on several
previous DoD satellite programs
has established RT Logic as a
trusted satellite ground systems
provider,” said Bill Asiano, RT
Logic’s
CMRP Program Manager, “The CSEL
CMRP is a very important project
to RT Logic because it allows
us to adapt our products for
adjacent markets using our
flexible, low risk, and cost
effective commercial
product architectures.”