As a PCMCIA card, TVM can be embedded in portable, hand-held, and wearable PCs. TVM technology can support both mounted and dismounted tactical forces involved in land, sea, and air warfighting operations. The use of TVM results in faster target engagement times, increased survivability, and reduction of the potential for fratricide. When combined with unattended ground sensors, such as Combat- Q, TVM permits warfighters to validate and verify tactical targets. It enables warfighters to visualize the tactical situation by providing real-time video, imagery, maps, floor plans, and 'fly-through' video on demand. TVM consists of a family of portable and hand-held devices being advanced into a next- generation, embedded capability. The Tactical Visualization Module (TVM) research effort will develop and demonstrate a portable, tactical information system to enhance the situational awareness of individual warfighters and small military units by providing real-time access to manned and unmanned aircraft, tactically mobile robots, and unattended sensors. This paper describes a low-cost radio architecture to meet the requirements of throw-away radios that can be easily modified or tuned to virtually any operating frequency required for the specific mission. Specific uses include perimeter monitoring, infrastructure defense, unattended ground sensors, tactical sensors, and border patrol. A low-cost RF communication radio has applicability in the commercial, homeland defense, military, and other government markets. Employing the technology of universal frequency architecture in a commercially available communication unit delivers a robust disposable transceiver that can operate at virtually any frequency. A low cost miniature disposable communications suite is leveraged using the commercial off-the-shelf market and employing a miniature universal frequency conversion architecture. A low-cost miniature radio is required to satisfy the communication needs for unmanned sensor and munitions systems that are deployed in a disposable manner. The radios being developed as part of the Networked Sensors for the Objective Force (NSOF) are too costly and too large to deploy in missions requiring throw-away hardware. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) and Objective Force Warrior (OFW) to detect and identify enemy targets on the battlefield. Unattended and tactical sensors are used by the U.S. A miniature disposable radio (MiDR) for unattended ground sensor systems (UGSS) and munitions

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