After a competitive bidding process, the Danish Army Material Command has awarded Thales Communications B.V. in Huizen, the Netherlands, a contract for the delivery of vehicle intercom systems worth approximately 15 million Euro. This multimedia intercom system called SotasM2 will be installed in some 1000 military vehicles.

This contract is awarded after the system was submitted to 4 months of extensive field testing. During that time, the Thales Communications team involved was committed to providing the customer with a solution tailored to their requirements, complying with new Danish labour laws calling for greater noise reduction in the vehicle environment, providing a flexible system that can support further upgrades in the ongoing digitisation of the battlefield, and having an ergonomic user interface.

SotasM2 provides clear communications between crew members inside and outside vehicles via combat net radios and field cables. Using the latest digital transmission technology, excellent quality voice is distributed over the system. Thanks to digital signal processors, any noise is filtered out and the system will switch on automatically if any voice activity is detected. Dynamic noise reduction has been introduced as a new feature in this version of the Sotas system. This means increased intelligibility of voice in high noise environments. Being a multimedia system, it cannot only carry voice, but also data and images.

This highly modular system is a key element in the implementation of the future Tactical Internet, which is the basis for implementation of Network Centric Warfare. SotasM2 enables future upgrades of both interfacing and functionality as required. Having selected the first, and so far only, true multimedia intercom system the Danish Army incorporates the future in their current acquisition program.

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