The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pursuing a universal codec that would allow military radios, satellites, and data networks to adapt how they protect transmissions from errors.
Through a special notice, the agency announced the Leveraging Universal Codecs (LUC) program, which seeks to develop a next-gen encoder-decoder pair capable of adapting to different error-detection and correction methods during data transmission.
The effort builds on DARPA’s earlier Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) research, which works by reverse-engineering interference in a transmission channel to reconstruct the original signal.
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