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SDRC Awarded SBIR Contract by PEO STRI to Upgrade the Communications at the Operational Test Command's Weapons Test Range (Ft. Hood, TX)

San Diego, CA (June 10, 2004). The San Diego Research Center, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the design, development, and delivery of the Communications Upgrade to the OT-TES from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) . SDRC will serve as the Lead System Integrator on this effort and will perform system and software analysis, system and software design and development, system integration and test, and system installation.

This program is a mobile, high fidelity tactical engagement simulation and field instrumentation system that collects and reports real-time casualty assessment and other required data. " This upgrade solves the very real-word problem of providing dramatically increased data bandwidth using less RF spectrum than was previously available", commented Lindsey McClure , SDRC's President. "This is the first time a wireless network has been used to this advantage in the test and training community".

OT-TES is capable of supporting operational testing and evaluation of Army weapon systems, doctrine and tactics. Data is collected while monitoring, controlling, and recording the force on force engagements that occur in a battlefield environment.

OT-TES is the replacement for the legacy system used at the Operational Test Command at West Fort Hood, Texas, known as the Mobile Automated Instrumentation Suite (MAIS). MAIS was fielded in 1998-99 and was revolutionary in the extent to which it provided high fidelity simulation of combat in exercises with live soldier, vehicle, and aircraft participants with up to 2000 players. Built primarily with 1980's technology, the capabilities of MAIS should be easily surpassed with OT-TES using modern communication techniques, processing power, and instrumentation technology.

OT-TES is intended to ultimately support more than 3000 live participants in field exercises with potentially additional thousands of virtual participants. It will be the first system of its kind to replace older laser pairing systems with so-called "geometric pairing" techniques, providing a radical improvement in simulation fidelity. OT-TES will feed technology and design solutions into the Army's OneTESS program, which is destined to become the replacement system for all MILES-based training systems such as those used at the National Training Center and Joint Readiness Training Center.

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