Telecom Lead America: Harris Corporation, a provider of
international communications and information technology, has bagged a $26
million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S.
Department of Defense Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) to upgrade and maintain
wideband tactical communications.
Under the contract, the U.S. government will be utilizing
Harris’ wideband networking expertise to add greater capabilities to the
open-standard SRW waveform software.
Furthermore, Harris will deliver improved capabilities,
maintenance and ongoing support for the SRW waveform over five years.
SRW is a DoD voice and data waveform standard developed
by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program. The waveform is used to
extend battlefield IP networks to the tactical edge.
Harris will apply its unique engineering and field
expertise in wideband networking to enhance and evolve SRW to meet today’s
mission needs as well as tomorrow’s emerging requirements,” said George Helm,
president, Department of Defense business, Harris RF Communications.
Harris will place key enhancements in the JTRS Program
Information Repository (IR), which was established to facilitate software
re-use in DoD tactical radios.
Harris is also providing the Department of Defense with
rights sufficient to invigorate competition, encourage innovation and
accelerate fielding of radios running this important waveform.
The company has integrated the AN/PRC-117G
and AN/PRC-152A with the JTRS Joint Enterprise Network Manager to
guarantee interoperability with tactical radios developed by other vendors.
Both the AN/PRC-117G and AN/PRC-152A operated SRW in the
recent U.S. Army Network Integration Evaluation at Fort Bliss, Texas and White
Sands, New Mexico.
Harris leads defense communications contracts
According to the Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense
Systems (ADS) service report called Defense Electronics Industry
Review, Harris Corporation is the leading equipment vendor with the
highest defense communications contracts.
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