Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network GATEway (MAINGATE)

The Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network GATEway (MAINGATE) program will develop the next generation Network Centric Radio System (NCRS) with additional capabilities and an assured affordable unit price to the user. MAINGATE will create a radio gateway that enables legacy analog and digital communications systems to be internetworked and integrated into a heterogeneous network tolerant to high latency and packet loss. The technologies developed for the program will permit affordable, tactical, real-time, high fidelity video, data, and voice services to be deployed in a networked environment to support tactical operations in maneuver or dismounted operations for line-of-site and beyond-line-of-site communications on the move and at the halt. A unique characteristic of the MAINGATE program is the integration of a "default" IP radio network as part of the gateway. The network will include the integration of adaptive communications architecture, flexible routing architecture, and heterogeneous application services.