What does CIDS stand for?

Army Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Center, the companies will study how millimeter-wave combat identification systems can address issues related to affordability, information security, and platform integration.

These tests are part of a five-year Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program that JFCOM began in 2001 to demonstrate interoperable combat identification systems in coalition air-to-ground and ground-to-ground environments.

Army Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Center, the companies will study how millimeter-wave combat identification systems can address issues related to affordability, information security, and platform integration.

Reverse IFF is the first air-ground combat identification system based on standard IFF concept.

Radio Frequency tags, for example, "look very promising for air to ground" combat identification systems.

The FBCB2/BFT computer systems provide tactical units with a global positioning system location, an ability to track and decipher between friendly and enemy combatants via a combat identification system, an ability to interface with terrestrial communication radios such as the single channel ground and airborne radio system or the enhanced position location reporting system, and the ability to access a satellite communications system.

Several countries are gearing up to award muiltibillion-dollar contracts to upgrade their national combat identification systems and make them compatible with NATO standards.

The Applique computer systems that are common and interoperable will provide the tactical units with global positioning system capabilities, an ability to track and decipher between friendly and enemy combatants via a combat identification system, an ability to interface with terrestrial communication radios such as the single channel ground and airborne radio system or the enhanced position location reporting system, and the ability to access a satellite communications system.