The fund which was granted to Professor John Booske and Professor Nader Behdad by the Office of Naval Research would be utilised to study an advanced troposcatter communications technology for use by the United States of American's Navy.
A publication by University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty of Engineering stated that there is now the need to develop an advance troposcatter communications technology because the use of satellite communication which has hitherto replaced the it are now highly vulnerable to sophisticated technique known as satellite jamming and eavesdropping. The scientists and engineers believe with advance troposcatter communications system the ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication network would be better secured.
The troposcatter communications work by transmitting radio signal toward troposphere from which it bounced off and scattered. It was reported that some of this signal scattered in the forward direction of the receivers. This technique work without the used of satellites or a relay station and thus making over-the-horizon-communication secure.
The is title “Novel Mobile Troposcatter Communications Antennas Enabled by Rapidly Reconfigurable Phased-Arrays.” and if successful it could bring back the use of troposcatter communications system among the military.
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