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General Dynamics, Part of Lockheed Martin JTRS AMF Team, Plans Work

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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General Dynamics [GD], part of the winning Lockheed Martin [LMT] team selected for the $766 million work on the Joint Tactical Radio System for Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Stations, recently announced its portion of the work. JTRS is a family of advanced communication systems expected to replace current radios in all the services and provide secure Internet-like capabilities and networking to include voice, text, audio, and video. AMF JTRS will be integrated into more than 150 airborne, shipboard and fixed-stations.…

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