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Next Generation Troposcatter (NGT) - August 20, 2024 – MARINE CORPS BASE TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - The Next Generation Troposcatter, or NGT, is a transportable, secure beyond-line of sight data transmission system capable of operating in a satellite communication-denied or degraded environment. In August, Marine Corps Systems Command began fielding NET to the Marine Corps Communication-Electronics School.

Next-Generation Troposcatter brings communication to the modern era

The Marine Corps has begun fielding a replacement to a decades-old communication system. The Next Generation Troposcatter, or NGT, is a transportable, secure beyond-line-of-sight data transmission system capable of operation in a satellite communication (SATCOM)-denied or degraded environment. The NGT replaces the Tropospheric Scatter Microwave Radio Terminal, or AN/TRC-170, which has been in the field since the 1980s.

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Marine Corps seeks ideas, information for Optical Communication Transmission System - A U.S. Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa performs a radio check during a training event with German soldiers in Seedorf, Germany, Dec. 6, 2018. Marine Corps Systems Command released a Request for Information March 5, to identify a non-developmental solution to provide a complete Line of Sight Optical Communication Transmission System. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Katelyn Hunter)