Aim. In the article explore issues and directions of the innovative approach to the development of automated complexes and radio communication facilities for special purposes. During the research it was determined that the effectiveness of the military radio communication system would be improved by facilities of modernization of the latest facilities of radio communication of foreign production or by improving the existing system of military radiocommunication. Presented directions and features of leading research and development works for the improvement and development of channels and systems of military radio communication, the creation of nodes and centers of radio communication, automated complexes and radio communication of special purpose were presented. Was given generalized approach to the construction of the system of automated radio communication, antenna-hardware complexes, software and hardware complexes of radio prediction and planning of use of radio frequency resource. Conclusions. According to the results of the conducted researches, conceptual decisions about the system engineering and technological reconfiguration of the existing radio communication system are proposed, which will allow to work in the automated radio networks as part of the radio centers of information and telecommunication units; to unify the facilities and complexes of radio communication with facilities of communication and automation, to provide counter work with the equipment of the old park, as well as to construct a fundamentally new radio communication system with the ability to calculate the planning and forecasting of the radio frequency resource.