Raytheon and Mercury Computer Systems will work together to leverage the benefits of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software radio processing and real waveform portability for elements of defense communications application.
Mercury will provide Raytheon with its Waveform-Ready WBDLS modem platform and SCA-compliant component portability infrastructure middleware for the software radio.
Mark Skalabrin, senior vice president of advanced computing solutions at Mercury Computer, said: We remain focused on developing COTS based products that enable solutions for the most challenging problems. We are delighted to have been selected by Raytheon to assist them in their efforts to contribute to the defense SATCOM community.