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We were a part of the authorship/review team for the Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) standards body of the Range Commanders Council (RCC) based on our domain expertise in developing the Integrated Networked Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) Link Manager for air-frame test ranges. We have contributed to the development of the supporting test range networked telemetry standards IRIG-106 Chapters 21-28 working with the initial iNET System Integrator Southwest Research Institute .
The RCC Telemetry group publishes telemetry standards used for various aeronautical test ranges. IRIG 106 is a comprehensive telemetry standard to ensure interoperability in aeronautical telemetry applications at RCC member ranges , and is developed and maintained by the Telemetry Group of the Range Commanders Council .
The concept of test ranges being interoperable has been the charter of the RCC. The RCC committees work together encouraging standardization, moving away from costly one-off proprietary solutions, and building and maintaining common standards for the ranges to interoperate. Much thought was given by the initial iNET developers to develop standards for a common approach for network telemetry, defined as Telemetry Network Standards ( TmNS ) . These standards are captured, published and maintained by the RCC Telemetry Group and the baseline standards were released in August of 2017. These Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) 106-17 Chapters 21-28 contain the new telemetry network standards.