BAE Systems (News - Alert), a global defense, security and aerospace company, has announced the completion of real-time mobile tests of a new wireless military radio technology designed to improve military wireless communications.

The new technology helps warfighters dispense critical communications without interruption during battle, according to BAE Systems officials. “The technology allows more traffic on more networking systems, giving users an advantage during air-to-air, air-to-ground, and soldier-to-soldier communications,” they said.

BAE Systems is developing wireless radios that can tackle interference in digital communications signals and has procured a $15.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for this project.

Officials say these wireless can also support as many as five simultaneous conversations into the same time and frequency slot, even in the presence of severe near-far interference.

The new technology eliminates the band

idth issues associated with the existing technologies – where bandwidth is shared through assignment of unique time slots, frequency slots, or code words for each user - significantly limiting network performance.

Experiments proved that the technology is successful in a mobile, ad-hoc network environment and demonstrated the vehicle-mounted DIMA radio’s ability to receive up to five simultaneous transmissions from different users while traveling at 15 mph.

By next March, BAE Systems plans to operate at speeds greater than 30 mph in highly interfering scenarios and even as high as 60 mph, says Joshua Niedzwiecki, manager of BAE Systems’ communications and signal exploitation research group.

“This would further validate the technology in more operational scenarios,” Niedzwiecki, added. “If fielded in Iraq, for example, it could prove vital in areas where interfering electronic transmissions reduce the amount of transmittable military communications.”

BAE Systems recently announced it will produce a system of infrared sensors that provides 24-hour all-weather visibility to operators of U.S. Army and Marine Corps ground vehicles. The company received an initial order of $10.7 million to deliver 338 Driver's Vision Enhancer Family of Systems (DVE-FOS).