Merlin | Cubic

Protected Waveforms

SECURE, AGILE & RESILIENT COMMUNICATIONS FOR CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS

The Merlin Waveform Ecosystem: Protected Communications for the Modern Battlespace

Across today’s highly contested battlespace, Warfighters face adversaries capable of disrupting, jamming, and intercepting critical tactical communications. Cubic Secure Communications delivers a modular, scalable suite of protected waveforms engineered to maintain secure, stealthy, and resilient connectivity across all mission sets. Backed by 30+ years of expertise in advanced tactical data links (ATDL) for airborne and surface platforms, we provide low risk, high performance communications that extend reach, enhance lethality, and preserve operational advantage in multi-domain environments.

Our Secure Communications solutions integrate innovative wideband networking systems and threat driven, platform ready, mission scalable waveforms designed for permissive, contested, and highly contested conditions. The result: assured connectivity, coalition interoperability, and sustained overmatch across the battlespace. Cubic delivers encrypted line of sight (LOS) and beyond line of sight (BLOS) data links for secure transmission of real time video, sensor data, and command-and-control (C2) signals across UAS, ground control stations, and crewed platforms.

Our protected waveform is available on Cubic’s next generation Expeditionary 1 (EX-1) Software Defined Radio (SDR), a solution built to counter a peer adversary's ability to contest the United States in the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) and assure kill chain data continuity.

Our waveform is also available as a portable solution for integration into third party SDRs.

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Key Features & Benefits

CAPABILITIES THAT SUPPORT THE MISSION

FOCUSED ON READINESS, RESILIENCE, AND RELIABILITY

ADVANCED LPI/LPD/AJ PROTECTION

Enhanced survivability with low probability of intercept, low probability of detection, and anti‑jam capabilities that are only limited by the laws of physics.

PROVEN PERFORMANCE IN HIGH‑THREAT ENVIRONMENTS

Validated by multiple DoW test labs and certified for the most challenging operational conditions, delivering increased throughput for wideband protected networking and advanced teaming.

HIGH‑PERFORMANCE LINK AVAILABILITY

Ensures secure, resilient reachback and mission‑critical data transport—even from the most highly contested electromagnetic environments.

CDL, BE‑CDL, AND WIDEBAND TACTICAL DATA LINKS

Supports CDL, BE‑CDL, and unclassified wideband waveforms for secure, real‑time transmission of video and sensor data across crewed and uncrewed aircraft, ground control stations, and surface vessels.

OPEN‑STANDARDS INTEGRATION

Enables rapid, low‑risk integration through MOSA/SOSA‑aligned standards and modern digital architectures—delivering high‑performance modem processing that accelerates platform modernization and readiness for the next fight.

FREQUENCY BAND AND HARDWARE‑AGNOSTIC FLEXIBILITY

Seamlessly integrates across multiple frequency bands and architectures—delivering assured connectivity on any system, anywhere.

Secure Communications