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Harris Corp. To Upgrade And Maintain SRW For Wideband Communications

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

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Harris Corp. [HRS] recently said it was awarded a $26 million to upgrade and maintain the Defense Department’s Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) for wideband tactical communications. Under the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract Harris’ will use its expertise in wideband networking to add greater capabilities to the open-standard SRW waveform software and make it more widely available to U.S. forces in next-generation tactical radios, the company said. Developed by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program, SRW is a DoD voice and…

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