Lockheed Martin Sets Up New Radio Terminal Development Facility To Assist MUOS Application Development

Lockheed Martin announced today that it has set up a new radio terminal development and certification facility to help the US Navy´s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).

MUOS is expected to achieve global communications coverage next year. The facility will help put MUOS´ new capabilities into warfighters´ hands faster, the company said.

MUOS operates like a satellite-based, smart-phone cell network, vastly improving current secure mobile, tactical communications for warfighters on the move. Once MUOS is fully operational, secure terminal users, connected through the system´s Internet protocol-based technology, will be able to transmit and receive clear voice calls and data from almost anywhere in the world. 

To assist other industry providers in testing, developing and certifying MUOS radio terminals and government applications more quickly, on Nov. 25, the company opened $6.5 million Test Radio Access Facility (TRAF) at in California. More than 55,000 currently fielded terminals can be upgraded to the MUOS Wideband Code Division Multiple Access waveform