Cubic Corporation announced its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division was awarded a delivery order from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for the development and demonstration of a Small Form Factor (SFF) Radio prototype for the Data Link Enterprise (DLE). The system is composed of one ground and one air component for improved communications capability, providing ground-to-air and air-to-ground real-time communications.

Cubic`s state-of-the-art solution is a lightweight, airborne and ground radio system delivering SFF capability in the most compact tactical radio prototype. In addition to a number of standard waveforms, Cubic`s system will demonstrate an internally developed, protected waveform known as Boomslang. Cubic`s SFF technical approach focuses on an architecture maximizing functionality and performance while minimizing the system`s size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) for both the ground and airborne systems. Cubic`s offering is modular, scalable and affordable with plug and play, open standard interfaces meeting Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) requirements.