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USJFCOM signs cooperative research and development agreement with L-3 Communications

U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a cooperative research and development agreement with L-3 Communications - Interstate Electronics Corporation today to improve personal navigation capabilities for the warfighter. Robert Pursell has the story.

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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring:Richard Carter, science and technology advisor for USJFCOM's Joint Urban Operations Office and USJFCOM’s principal investigator for the CRADA

Pursell:  U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a cooperative research and development agreement or CRADA with L-3 Communications – Interstate Electronics Corporation today to improve personal navigation capabilities for the warfighter.

The CRADA between USJFCOM and L-3 Communications is a three-year cooperative agreement with two one-year options, focused on providing personal navigation capabilities in areas where complete global positioning system or GPS coverage is not available.

The purpose is to yield a technology that will help the warfighter navigate in an environment to allow friendly forces to keep track of each other when going into buildings to rescue a hostage or track down insurgents.

Richard Carter, science and technology advisor for USJFCOM's Joint Urban Operations Office and USJFCOM’s principal investigator for the CRADA explained how this agreement can help in the development of this technology.

Carter: “The overall reason for the CRADA is to develop a prototype collaboratively and then evaluate that in an urban environment to evaluate the worth of having such a technology.”

Pursell:  The agreement with L-3 Communications is one of many that USJFCOM has entered into since the Office of the Secretary of Defense delegated technology transfer authority to the command in 2005.

For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.

For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Robert Pursell.