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The companies have showcased secure long-range communications capability to Army representatives as part of their C4 EDGE collaboration.
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Codan Communications and Penten have performed a secure beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) skywave communication exercise, spanning approximately 330 kilometres between the Majura Field Firing Training Range in the ACT and Bourke Hill in Dubbo, NSW.
Codan’s Sentry-H 6120-BM Transceiver leveraged Penten’s Helix encrypted communication suite to deliver digital voice, messaging, and frequency hopping over a skywave — an ionospheric propagation path.
The exercise was the latest of a number of prototype demonstrations to Army Headquarters over the past week by members of the C4 EDGE battlegroup (Evolutionary Digital Ground Environment) — a defence co-operative led by EOS Defence Systems exploring the development of a sovereign land battlegroup and below communications environment for the Australian Army.
“I am delighted with the outcomes of this opportunity to demonstrate the HF Skywave capabilities of Codan Sentry-H HF Transceivers to the Australian Army under the auspices of the C4 EDGE program,” Paul Sangster, CEO of Codan Communications, said.
“This has led to Army becoming more aware of Codan’s sovereign industry capabilities in HF communications and we believe will lead to a deepening of the relationship between Codan and Army.”
Matt Jones, newly appointed CEO of EOS Defence Systems Australia, welcomed the progress of the advanced BLOS capability.
“Australia has two of the world’s best HF radio manufactures and C4 EDGE’s investment in upgrading their technology to a new level of security and integration can only result in more sales locally and internationally,” Jones said.
Codan’s Sentry-H HF Transceivers technology is expected to be integrated with additional high assurance cryptographic capability in 2022.
[Related: C4 EDGE trials Australian-made radio capabilities]
