The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) 2C is a programmable, wideband, secure, open architecture communications system. It provides virtual circuit and datagram service, which guarantees reliable, simultaneous, multichannel voice, data, imagery, and video transmission. The JTRS core modules can be configured for ground, shipboard, and airborne platforms. Digital signal processing provides flexibility and operational simplicity in end-to-end communication connectivity, packet formatting, and packet switching protocols.

The JTRS provides wireless Local Area Network (LAN) service for both Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) data and/or voice links. Adaptive routing provides for network survivability in the most challenging of dynamic mobile subscriber applications, as required by the TOC-to-TOC Tactical Internet/Warfighter Information Network (WIN) Architecture. With near term upgrades, JTRS architecture supports all waveforms in the ORD and will meet many other tactical communications requirements.