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Northrop Grumman, Flarion cooperate on homeland security wireless network

HERNDON, Va.-Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Information Technology (IT) sector and Flarion Technologies said they are working together to promote a homeland security network communication system based on Flarion’s flash Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology. The companies are marketing their system to government customers for homeland security and emergency response applications.

The companies said their solution provides improvements over existing solutions including a packet-switched voice and data airlink technology for nationwide coverage that replicates wired broadband computing; Flarion RadioRouters for wireless coverage and access; PC cards for personal computing use with personal digital assistants and laptops; application access to any standard office and operational system; communication support for push-to-talk mobile voice services and always-on broadband data access and support; interoperability with IP networks; and network management tools.

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