Message posted by gary on February 10, 2001 at 02:46:11 EST:

One of the DLRers who is into monitoring digital data over radio waves alerted me that the USAF is working on a military version of ACARS. It is supposed to be encrypted. Today one of the posts on the milcom list was an intercepted ACARS report from a USAF plane.

Here is the post:
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Radios pretty quiet here today, but I did pick this off my ACARS logs.

----------------------------------------------------09:19:38, 09/02/2001
S70401 Gulfstream-VC37A 542 97-0401 USAF 89th,MAW,Andrews,AFB
BIZZ JET GS0001
Using Ground Station 2 Broadcast.Message No. M55A
Message Type 14
(2AAAEN38281W 94025ATIS LOS ANGELES S70401 ATIS LOS ANGELES
(Z

Russell Hall
NE Missouri
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This is the first time I've seen this posted. It would be interesting if any of the planes around Groom used ACARS. Perhaps the Janet planes use the system, since they are somewhat civilian in nature.

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