TrellisWare demos Army networking tech in Project Convergence

TrellisWare says it supported more than 1,100 radios in the Army’s Project Convergence Capstone 6 exercise, showing networking gear built for contested environments and coalition operations. The demo ties into the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control push and highlights interoperability across U.S. and partner forces.

Why it matters: - The Army is trying to modernize command and control for operations that can shift from permissive to heavily contested environments. - TrellisWare’s demonstration centers on resilient networking, extended range and interoperability across U.S. and coalition units. - The company is positioning its waveform and radio ecosystem as a fielded option for large-scale tactical communications.

What happened: - TrellisWare Technologies announced a successful demonstration of advanced communications capabilities supporting the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Command and Control modernization effort. - The company said it supported more than 1,100 radios using its TSM waveform during Project Convergence Capstone 6. - The radios supported the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, multinational partners from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, and a separate U.S. SGT Stout Air Defense unit. - TrellisWare said the demonstration took place across multiple Army formations and operational settings.

The details: - The PCC6 radio mix included eight form factors. - Those form factors ranged from High Assurance multichannel manpacks and handhelds to single-channel Sensitive But Unclassified handheld radios. - The mix also included high-powered vehicular radio heads. - TrellisWare also fielded an embedded module on a loitering communications relay platform. - The company said its waveform technologies supported flexible, resilient communications from permissive to highly contested environments. - TrellisWare said the system also enabled extended communications range with uncrewed aerial systems between large formations. - HDR+ has been added to TrellisWare’s TSM Mobile Ad Hoc Network waveform. - The company said HDR+ delivers more than 50 Mbps of throughput and supports scalable networks of more than 800 nodes in complex operational environments. - When spectrum is constrained, the TSM waveform can scale down to operate within 1.2 MHz channels. - TrellisWare said its Katana waveforms are designed to maintain continuous connectivity in the presence of sophisticated jamming. - The company said its software-defined radios provide more than 1.5 GHz of usable spectrum across UHF, L-band and S-band in one radio architecture. - TrellisWare said that architecture improves spectrum flexibility while reducing equipment burden on warfighters and tactical platforms. - The company said its multi-vendor, multi-security SDR ecosystem enabled interoperability between U.S. and multinational forces using radios from different vendors and at different security levels. - Matt Fallows, TrellisWare vice president of global business development and customer support, said the Army’s NGC2 effort requires communications technology that can work reliably across complex and evolving environments. - Fallows said TrellisWare’s work with the 4th Infantry Division, plus concurrent efforts supporting the 25th Infantry Division and 82nd Airborne Division, showed the company’s systems deliver flexible, resilient and scalable tactical networking.

Between the lines: - TrellisWare is using PCC6 to show that its communications stack is not just lab-ready, but field-ready at scale. - The emphasis on coalition interoperability suggests the company is targeting joint and multinational operations, not only U.S. Army use cases. - The breadth of radio form factors points to an effort to cover multiple mission profiles with one ecosystem.

What's next: - TrellisWare said it will continue working with the Army as it advances NGC2 and future tactical command-and-control efforts. - The company said its TSM waveform, as an international interoperability standard, supports direct communications with coalition partners using TSM-enabled systems. - TrellisWare said it has more than 225,000 systems fielded across its own and partner tactical radios and unmanned systems. - The company is continuing to expand the reach of its mission-proven communications technology across its broader ecosystem.