The MIDS Program Office (MPO) is comprised of the MIDS International Program Office (IPO), MIDS Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Advanced Tactical Data Links, and the Link 16 Waveform programs. The MIDS IPO, which manages the MIDS Low Volume Terminal (LVT) program, is an international cooperative development between France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States, and has a history of over 25 years of international cooperation. MIDS JTRS is a U.S. Navy funded program, built as a multi-channel, software-defined variant of MIDS-LVT. MIDS is the most widely-fielded family of Link 16 terminals in the world with products supporting airborne, maritime, ground mobile, and fixed-station platforms with a multi-band, multi-mode, networkable, software-definable radio system satisfying existing and future requirements for DoD joint interoperability.
MIDS is the most widely-fielded family of Link 16 terminals in the world with products supporting airborne, maritime, ground mobile, and fixed-station platforms with a multi-band, multi-mode, networkable, software-definable radio system satisfying existing and future requirements for DoD joint interoperability.