Cassdian Delivers Electronic Components For Germany’s Army Communication System

Defense giant Cassidian has delivered the first electronic components for the new software-defined radio communications system (“KommSysBw”) in due time. For a project, called “SVFuA” (“Streitkräftegemeinsame Verbundfähige Funkgeräte- Ausstattung” – Interconnectable Joint-Services Radio Equipment), it is intended to optimise the Bundeswehr’s jam-resistant mobile voice and data communications in the coming decade, particularly in missions abroad. “Secure mobile communications are a necessary precondition for the protection of our soldiers,” explains Dr. Rolf Wirtz, Head of the Military Mission Systems unit at Cassidian. “Thanks to our experience with super high frequency equipment and the use of new technology, for example on the basis of gallium nitride, we are in a position to offer an excellent solution for the most complex component of the new radio system”. The project is currently being developed by several independent contractor that include Hagenuk Marinekommunikation, TDS, Rohde & Schwarz, Telefunken Racoms and Cassidian. Cassidian’s role in the project is to develop a broadband transmit and receive module using the most up-to-date technologies, this module allows for secure data transmission with bit rates of up to 30 Mbits per second. Allowing transmission of large volumes of data over long distances, while at the same time ensuring optimum resistance to jamming.