Metrodata's involvement with US Naval Research  Labs goes back to 2002 when we got involved in providing a cell bearing serial interface for an experimental COTS suite for C4i. At the time we had a widely used EIA530 serial interface but this was purely for Circuit Emulation, providing 8kbps to 20Mbps in 1bit increments.

We already had a HSSI ATM Cell bearing interface, but NRL were interested in EIA530, so we developed an ATM variant of our EIA530 interface again capable of up to 20Mbps.

This Experimental suite was for Naval Warfare Development Command, SPAWAR and US NRL for use in the Millenium Challenge 02.

After success in the above exercise it was deployed to the Gulf. 

Mr. Guy Purser, Chief Engineer for NWDC, had specific goals for the type of C4I suite to prototype on the Joint Venture. "We wanted a state-of-the-art complement of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems that provided an integrated workstation for applications, voice, and radio whether the application or transmission was local or long haul. Joint Venture has demonstrated the efficacy of this COTS design in actual combat conditions with a high state of reliability."