US Navy’s SPAWAR to Upgrade Its CDL System

Cubic Awarded SPAWAR Contract to Supply Common Data Links

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PRWEB) December 08, 2014

Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) announced today that it was tasked by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), under contract N00039-12-C-0084, to develop and test an upgrade to the critical circuit card systems used on the AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link System (CDLS). This development effort, with funding up to $1.3 million, has the potential to significantly extend the system life in support of U.S. Naval operations.
This state-of-the art data link system significantly increases the delivery speed and the volume of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and video that can be processed aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and large-deck amphibious assault ships ensuring quick, accurate and secure distribution of intelligence data to the fleet.
“The Navy’s CDL system allows naval operators to track aircraft in any location relative to the vessel. It also provides 15 different waveforms needed to communicate with U.S. Air Force, Army and coalition aircraft sensors in a network-centric manner,” said Mike Twyman, senior vice president, Communications and Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) division of Cubic Defense Applications. “We are proud to continue to support the Navy with this advanced shipboard data link system.”
 
US Navy’s SPAWAR to Upgrade Its CDL System | Naval Today
Cubic Corporation was tasked by the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), under contract, to develop and test an upgrade to the critical circuit card systems used on the AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link System (CDLS).
This development effort, with funding up to $1.3 million, has the potential to significantly extend the system life in support of U.S. Naval operations.
This state-of-the art data link system significantly increases the delivery speed and the volume of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and video that can be processed aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and large-deck amphibious assault ships ensuring quick, accurate and secure distribution of intelligence data to the fleet.
Mike Twyman, senior vice president, Communications and Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) division of Cubic Defense Applications, said:

The Navy’s CDL system allows naval operators to track aircraft in any location relative to the vessel. It also provides 15 different waveforms needed to communicate with U.S. Air Force, Army and coalition aircraft sensors in a network-centric manner.

58 -- Sole Source Synopsis for Common Data Link System (CDLS) Follow-on - N00039-10-R-0004 - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities

Defense.gov Contracts for Thursday, August 02, 2012
            Cubic Defense Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $8,704,580 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Communication Data Link Subsystem (CDLS) and Modified KI-11A subsystems.  Antenna systems will become part of the only CDLS CVN variant capable of multiple link capability in support of helicopters accomplishing an anti-submarine warfare mission.  The KI-11 upgrade will provide a form, fit, function replacement of the CDLS communications security equipment in order to comply with National Security Administration standards for chip replacement.  This contract includes options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to an estimated $18,662,816.  Work will be performed San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed February 2014.  Work could continue until February 2018, if all options are exercised.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was sole sourced and synopsized via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Business Opportunity website and Federal Business Opportunities website.  The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-12-C-0084).

Common Data Link [CDL]
The Common Data Link (CDL) program is designed to achieve data link interoperability and provide seamless communications between multiple Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection systems operated by armed services and government agencies. CDL provides full-duplex, jam resistant, digital microwave communications between the ISR sensor, sensor platform, and surface terminals. The CDL Program establishes data link standards and specifications identifying compatibility and interoperability requirements between collection platforms and surface terminals across user organizations.
In 1979, the Common Data Link (CDL) Program foundation originated the Interoperable Data Link (IDL) program. The United States Air Force/Assistant Secretary of Defense (USAF/ASD) and the National Security Agency (NSA) developed the IDL the U-2 platform. In 1988, the Office of the ASD (OASD)/Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) recognized the success of the IDL program with a decision to develop a standard communication architecture that would be common across all Department of Defense (DoD) Services. OASD/C3I mandated the CDL proliferation to users involved in the collection and dissemination of wideband Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data.
CDL is a full-duplex, jam resistant spread spectrum, point-to-point digital link. The uplink operates at 200kbps-and possibly up to 45Mbps. The downlink can operate at 10.71 -45 Mbps, 137 Mbps, or 234 Mbps In addition; rates of 548Mbps and 1096Mbps will be supported. The CDL family has five classes of links:

• Class I - Ground-based applications with airborne platforms operating at speeds Mach 2.3 at altitude up to 80,000 ft.
• Class II - Speeds up to Mach 5 and Altitudes up to 150,000 ft.
• Class III - Speeds up to Mach 5 and Altitudes up to 500,000 ft.
• Class IV - Terminals in satellites orbiting at 750nm.
• Class V - Terminals in relay satellites operating at greater altitudes