Crossbow delivers decoding, analysis, recording and processing of off-air data for customisable user applications with data protected and secured on an encrypted solid state drive.

• Reconfigurable user interface
• Local or remote antennas
• Can be re-tasked in the field for ongoing changeable missions
• Multi-channel RF front end
• Rugged outdoor military standard (MIL-STD) unit with daylight readable touch screen display
• Standard LIPS 10/12 battery powered.

With rapid prototyping, evaluation and short run production capability, and a technical partnership with the user, PPM Systems offers COTS, MOTS and fully custom solutions for military and defence users.

Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is predicted to become the dominant technology in radio communications, with many advantages over more traditional radio systems including:

• Significantly wider operating ranges from low MHz to GHz.
• High instantaneous bandwidth by combining RF streams within the software domain.
• Increased operating freedom, the adaptive nature of SDR allows self-monitoring and dynamic reconfiguration to optimise performance in the field.
• Reduced total cost of ownership; replacing multiple traditional radio sets with a single hardware platform, able to support multiple end-use applications.
• The protocol agnostic RF front ends allows software to determine, decode and encode to any protocol required on the fly.