Next-Generation Mobile Software Defined Radio Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Topic No.: N08-087 Topic Title: Next-Generation Mobile Software Defined Radio Proposal No.: N081-087-0759 Firm: DataSoft Corp. 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, #460 Scottsdale, Arizona 85257 Contact: Bart Jackson Phone: (480) 763-5777 Web Site: www.datasoft.com Abstract: The U.S. military's next-generation radio system, Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), is based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology and will create new opportunities, methods, and applications for generating and sharing tactical data. One of the many challenges in realizing the JTRS vision is to create small, lightweight, embeddable devices that operate from battery power, meet the requirements for performance, SCA compliance, and can be carried, worn, or embedded for mobile applications. DataSoft will identify the most promising available approaches for the development of low-cost embeddable software defined radios (SDR) that minimize power consumption and maximize battery life. This will be accomplished through the quantified evaluation of current and future SDR components and technologies. Our Phase I activities will develop a SDR architecture which incorporates available best-of-breed technologies from both commercial and Government sectors to produce an embeddable low-cost, small size and weight, low power consumption SDR device composed of commercially available components, that can take advantage of the JTRS software communications architecture (SCA) and software waveform library. Benefits: The JTRS, FCS, and WIN-T markets are expected to be over $9 billion over the next 20 years. These are complex networked environments that provide new tactical communication mechanisms. Leveraging these new technologies to enable information superiority, modernization efforts, and ultimately network-centric warfare will require small, lightweight, embeddable SDR devices to form low-cost sensor networks and provide communication endpoints to the Warfighter. There are numerous devices that could be built from a small low-cost core SDR architecture developed from commercially available components and technologies. Return