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Army

DRS Receives $842 Million Deal To Deliver New Rugged Tablets For Army Battle Command Platform

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018

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DRS Receives $842 Million Deal To Deliver New Rugged Tablets For Army Battle Command Platform

Soldier uses the Joint Battle Command-Platform on the first-gen MFoCS. Photo: U.S. Army.

The Army is moving forward on its effort to update its battle command platform with a nearly $850 million deal to Leonardo’s DRS for an updated set of modular rugged computers to meet new integration requirements, the Pentagon said May 25.DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC received a potential 10-year, $842 million contract to provide the next set of Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS), which will utilize dismountable tablets to run the Army’s Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P).DRS is the…

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