Overview The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. ...

Overview Cooperative diversity (CD) is a physical hardware arrangement technique that uses multiple antennas to improve a network's total channel capacity for any set of bandwidths. In traditional ...

Overview Fiber-optic cables must be installed from one point to the next to enable optical communications. The quality of those cables is important to the performance of an optical communications ...

Overview A cognitive diversity network (CDN) is an amalgamation of many different networking processes contributing to the operation of one network. "Cognitive diversity" is the difference in ...

Overview The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is a multinational forum formed in 1982 to discuss common problems in the development and creation of space communications systems. ...

Overview ViaLight Communications is a company that specializes in laser communication solutions for data transmission between flight platforms and optical ground stations (OGS). Flight platforms ...

Overview BRIDGECOMM, INC. (previously known as BridgeSat) is an American company specializing in optical wireless communications applications. Their goal is to create "a global network of optical ...

Overview Blackjack is a DARPA program that will replace the old National Security Space (NSS) satellite infrastructure in GEO with a mesh grid operating in LEO made entirely out of commercial, easily ...

Overview Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Ball Aerospace, for short) is an American-based company specializing in space programs and services. Their mainline products include spacecrafts and ...

Overview The bit-error rate (BER) is the number of countable bit errors encountered in a data stream over a certain period of time. Common reasons for bit errors include channel noise, signal ...