Spectracom R&D supported by Air Force contract

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory of Rome, N.Y., has awarded Spectracom and its academic partner, Rochester Institute of Technology, a $300,000 contract to continue research of a wireless network routing protocol to support warfighter communications for military airborne networks. The contract supports the Department of Defense’s plan to deploy an IP-based network to interconnect mobile airborne platforms to the military’s Global Information Grid.