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Spectrum Reallocation: Shifting Frequencies for USAF F-15 Training
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US Spectrum Chart(click to view full) With the explosion in the number of cell phones and other commercial wireless devices, the US Federal Communications Commission has had to take spectrum used by US government agencies and shift it over to commercial use. To fund this spectrum transition, the US Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2004 the Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act, which provided over $1 billion to federal agencies to pay for the shift. The largest US government user of spectrum is the Department of Defense. So DoD got the largest chuck of that money – $355.4 million. From that pool, the USAF recently awarded Raytheon a $37.9M delivery order to modify weapons data link equipment used for F-15 pilot training… GBU-15/AGM-130 Data Links GBU-15(click to view larger) Under the original $75 million contract, Raytheon is modifying the weapons data link for the GBU-15 and AGM-130 weapon systems used for F-15 pilot training. The modification is intended to shift the frequency that the data links use to relay information to the weapon systems so that the data links and commercial systems don’t interfere with each other. The GBU-15 is an unpowered, glide weapon that consists of modular […]
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