Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department	Defense Analysis
Investigator(s)	Budden, Nancy A.
Sponsor	Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD)
Summary	Contingency Communications (C-Comms) is an effort to develop low visibility mission communications capabilities to protect clandestine operators and information. This project has two Phases. Phase I engages with Special Operations Forces (SOF) to assess and down-select hardware and software towards a C-Comms solution. Phase II finalizes with SOF the final design and builds a prototype system for a demonstration with operator assessment and feedback. Transition to the SOF warfighter community commences at the onset of the project. C- Comms will provide a backbone for low-visibility communications for operators to work virtually invisible in urban environments where cellular communications persist, while reducing probability of intercept and probability of detection.
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