New technology to help manage mission critical communications

Indra will implement its new Tactical Communication Router (TCR) for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Joint Battlefield Airspace Controller teams.

The delivery of these systems forms the basis of a recent contract signed between the Defence Materiel Organisations Ground Telecommunication Equipment Systems Program Office and Indra under Air Force Minor Project AFM935.

The project will run until 2014 and is scoped to deliver six systems.

Indra will provide a ruggedised, tempest certified, TCR which will provide interoperability and connectivity to existing communications infrastructure, as well as tactical Ground-Ground and Air-Ground-Air voice communications networks.

Indra’s TCR will provide maximum operational flexibility by utilising modular configuration concepts and will be capable of rapid deployment to provide communication services to Single Service, Joint or Coalition forces whilst deployed within Australia or throughout the world.

The system’s Controller Work Position comprises a modern, high-quality Human Machine Interface which provides the operator a highly intuitive touch screen that facilitates easy access to, and control of, radios and telephone services, which can be entirely monitored and supervised by the management system.

This technology offers the Australian Defence Force a quantum-leap in safety and efficiency for the control and manipulation of tactical communications through the use of advanced switching technology that adeptly manages both analogue and digital signal interfaces and signaling methods and encompasses state-of-the-art VoIP capability.