W15P7T10DC420

BFT-2 IS THE NEXT GENERATION OF THE FORCE XXI BATTLE COMMAND BRIGADE AND BELOW (FBCB2) BFT TRANSCEIVER/NETWORK. WITH BFT-2, FBCB2 WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO UPDATE POSITION REPORTS IN SECONDS RATHER THAN MINUTES. THOUSANDS OF PLATFORMS WILL SHARE A SINGLE SATELLITE CHANNEL, RESULTING IN REDUCED RECURRING COST. ICONS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN WILL MORE ACCURATELY REPRESENT A VEHICLES LOCATION. THE FBCB2 SYSTEM IS THE ARMYS DIGITAL BATTLE COMMAND INFORMATION SYSTEM AT THE BRIGADE AND BELOW LEVEL. IT PROVIDES INTEGRATED, ON-THE-MOVE, TIMELY AND RELEVANT BATTLE COMMAND INFORMATION TO TACTICAL COMBAT LEADERS AND SOLDIERS FROM BRIGADE TO PLATFORMS AND ACROSS PLATFORMS WITHIN A BRIGADE TASK FORCE. IT ENABLES WARFIGHTERS TO PASS ORDERS AND GRAPHICS TO VISUALIZE THE COMMANDERS INTENT AND SCHEME OF MANEUVER. THE BFT-2 PLATFORM EQUIPMENT IS INSTALLED ON A VARIETY OF HOST VEHICLES, SUCH AS HIGH-MOBILITY MULTIPURPOSE WHEELED VEHICLE (HMMWV), BRADLEY, ABRAMS, PALADIN, AND AVIATION (SELECT FIXED AND ALL ROTARY WING). THE FBCB2 COMPUTER IS CONNECTED VIA AN ETHERNET CONNECTION TO THE KGV-72 TYPE 1 ENCRYPTION DEVICE AND THEN TO THE SATELLITE TRANSCEIVER. THE BFT-2 UNITS COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER VIA ONE OR MORE L-BAND COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES. THE FULL DUPLEX BFT-2 TRANSCEIVERS SHALL BE CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A HIGH VOLUME OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SA) MESSAGES AND COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) MESSAGES BY UTILIZING A CUSTOM BFT-2 WAVEFORM TRANSMITTED OVER HIGH GAIN/HIGH PERFORMANCE L-BAND COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES SUCH AS INMARSAT-4 (I-4) OR THURAYA. COMPETITIVE SOURCE SELECTION - NO COST OR PRICING DATA