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Reality Mobile Gets Navy Video Collaboration Subcontract

By TechTaffy Desk

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Reality Mobile has been awarded a subcontract with Oceus Networks to provide enterprise-class real-time mobile video collaboration solutions to the U.S. Navy.  The company’s flagship product, RealityVision was selected as part of a pilot for a new Navy portable maritime Command and Control (C2) system, making this the first operational deployment of 4G LTE for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The award is as a subcontractor to Oceus Networks, under a contract for a pilot being conducted over the next year with the Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group, homeported in Norfolk, Va. RealityVision will be an integrated part of the Xiphos tactical cellular solution which will provide high capacity secure wireless broadband for real time access to Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) data for intra-ship communications over the horizon, and inter-ship communications via commercial hand-held devices.

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