Figure 2-28.—KY-879/P keyboard.

Figure 2-28.—KY-879/P keyboard. determine interoperability in joint operations involving single-channel tactical radio equipment. Equipment planning in the Special Operations Community is complicated by the wide variety of equipment used and the highly variable and rapidly changing nature of the operational settings. Because most communications requirements for this community are satisfied by single-channel, full- duplex radio links, CLIPS was designed primarily to help plan this type of communications link. Equipment covered under CLIPS is specifically limited to radios, modems, crypto devices, input/output data terminals, and packet controllers normally used to establish these radio links. The CLIPS program is designed for use with IBM PC or compatible computers using MS-DOS. It is designed to provide solutions to equipment planning and link configuration problems by considering all the factors involved and automatically determining the “best” system to be used by each participant in the communications link. The CLIPS program in- corporates the knowledge of experienced com- munications personnel, equipment specifications, circuit planning rules, and equipment inventories in a way that makes communications planning straight- forward, easy, and objective. 2-29