Yes, in 1996 MELP won the US DoD MIL-STD-3005 standard competition against other candidate vocoders such as (a) Frequency Selective Harmonic Coder (FSHC), (b) Advanced Multiband Excitation (AMBE), (c) Enhanced Multiband Excitation (EMBE), (d) Sinusoid Transform Coder (STC), and (e) Subband LPC Coder (SBC). Under the US DoD’s extensive testing MELP received the highest score and was eventually selected as the standard. Several years later, the enhanced-MELP (MELPe) was developed and even surpassed the MELP’s quality. Hence at bitrates of 2400, 1200, and 600, MELPe is the best vocoder available in real-time DSP implementation. 6.2 Q: Is MELPe better than the old secure voice standards such as FS1015 LPC-10e (2.4 kbps), FS1016 CELP (4.8 kbps) and CVSD (16 kbps)? A: Yes, in 2002 as part of NATO testing for new NATO standard, MELPe was tested against other candidates such as France’s HSX (Harmonic Stochastic eXcitation) and Turkey’s SB-LPC (Split-Band Linear Predictive Coding), as well as t