Cohere Technologies has won a $28 million military contract to build a multi-waveform Radio Access Network (RAN) prototype for detecting drones. The funding...

Cohere Technologies has won a $28 million military contract to build a multi-waveform Radio Access Network (RAN) prototype for detecting drones. The funding originates from the FutureG Office within the US Department of War. The project expands upon a National Science Foundation VINES Phase 2 initiative. Financial resources support the creation of a sovereign Integrated Sensing and Communications capability. This deployment utilises existing and future commercial 5G and 6G infrastructure to enable persistent aerial and ground surveillance. Network administrators and defense officials require this surveillance traffic to remain indistinguishable from ordinary cellular communications.Integrating multi-waveform baseband architectureNetwork administrators face the complex engineering task of running multiple baseband protocols upon a shared, open software stack. The multi-waveform...

Cohere Technologies has won a $28 million military contract to build a multi-waveform Radio Access Network (RAN) prototype for detecting drones. The funding originates from the FutureG Office within the US Department of War. The project expands upon a National Science Foundation VINES Phase 2 initiative. Financial resources support the creation of a sovereign Integrated Sensing and Communications capability. This deployment utilises existing and future commercial 5G and 6G infrastructure to enable persistent aerial and ground surveillance. Network administrators and defense officials require this surveillance traffic to remain indistinguishable from ordinary cellular communications.Integrating multi-waveform baseband architectureNetwork administrators face the complex engineering task of running multiple baseband protocols upon a shared, open software stack. The multi-waveform...