A broad agency announcement from the Air Force Research Laboratory requesting research and development in support of software-defined radio frequency capabilities.
The Air Force wants to use advances in software and hardware to make its radio communications more adaptable to a variety of mission environments without sacrificing security.
Software-defined networking, an IT architecture that uses software-based controllers to provide operators with a broad view of a network, is in vogue at the Defense Department. Officials at the Air Force Research Lab’s Information Directorate want to apply the concept to radio frequency.
