JTRS Infrastructure Architecture and Standards

In March 2005, the USD (AT&L) appointed a Joint Program Executive Officer (JPEO) for JTRS to provide an overarching management structure across all Department of Defense (DoD) JTRS programs. The JPEO JTRS was given full directive authority for all waveform, radio, and common ancillary equipment development, performance and design specifications, standards for operation of the system, and JTRS systems engineering. The JTRS program objective is to develop and integrate a family of software defined radios which maximize software and hardware commonality and reusability. To achieve this goal, the JPEO is facilitating the establishment of a standardized infrastructure for joint tactical radio (JTR) sets