Deep Speak

Program Manager: Dr. Derek Tournear

Reliable communications enables our warfighters to fight together cohesively and cooperatively, thus magnifying our striking power. Critical communications links may be broken in the urban warfighting scenarios where radio-frequency signals are severely attenuated by the surrounding infrastructure. The Deep Speak program is developing new networking, coding and waveform techniques that enable communications signals to penetrate the surrounding buildings and underground facilities, and thus maintain the warfighters' links to each other and the global network. A Deep Speak demonstration is expected in 2007.