specialized field concerned with the use of electronic devices and systems for

the acquisition or acceptance, processing,storage, display, analysis, protection,

disposition, and transfer of information.

C-E includes the wide range of responsibilities and actions relating to:

Electronic devices and systems used in the transfer of ideas and perceptions;

Electronic sensors and sensory systems used in the acquisition of information devoid

of semantic influence;

Electronic devices and systems intended to allow friendly forces to operate in hostile

environments and to deny to hostile forces the effective use of electromagnetic

resources.

Electronic Communications Equipment

Communication electronics radio equipment has been a rapidly growing industry for

more than a century. Homeland Security in the USA is one of the reasons for the fast

growth. Since the invention of the “solid state” transistor in the 1950s and the TTL

(transistor-transistor logic) that led to the development of the IC (integrated circuit) in the

1960s the growth in the field of electronics has been phenomenal. As now witnessed in

the “radio communications” field. The latest trend is to send conventional LMR (land-

mobile-radio) signals over the Internet (Internet Protocol) this is called RoIP (Radio over

Internet Protocol), which is just like VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) but uses the

radio. By sending signals over the Internet it allows radios to be connected together all

over the world. Hence: the “Communications Revolution”.