Harris provided wideband tactical radios, broadband satellite terminals, and other equipment and support for networking to CE-09, the world's largest military communications information systems exercise. Combined Endeavor took place September 4 through the 17th and involved more than 1,200 participants from 40 nations spread over three European countries. The demo highlighted Harris Corporation's leadership and capacity in delivering advanced communications down to the soldier level for line-of-sight and beyond-line-of sight applications. The overall objective of Combined Endeavor is to allow nations to develop coalition plans and policies, common tactics and procedures, technical capabilities and familiarity with each other.
Harris provided its Falcon III RF-7800M Multiband Networking Radio, the RF-7800S Secure Personal Radio, and the RF-7800W High-Capacity Line-of-Sight Radio. These radios were integrated into various system configurations along with Harris RF-7800B Broadband Global Area Network satellite terminals to form scalable mobile ad-hoc networking communications systems that connected widely dispersed troops. Significantly, the Harris demos involved applications of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET), an important concept in tactical communications in which radios relay and route voice-and-data traffic themselves. This capability eliminates the need for dedicated switching and routing devices. In doing so, deployed forces are able to communicate to more personnel, over longer distances, without reliance on standard telecommunications infrastructure. This is first exhibition of mobile ad-hoc networking as part of Combined Endeavor.