Harris Corp. [HRS] yesterday said it received orders totaling $13 million from the Navy for Falcon III and Falcon II tactical radio systems.
“Harris’ Falcon radios provide U.S. Department of Defense ground forces with a complete range of tactical communication capabilities to address their missions,” Brendan O’Connell, president, Department of Defense business, Harris RF Communications, said in a statement. “Because our radios are software-defined, they are also adaptable to meet emerging requirements and changing mission standards.”
Harris will deliver the systems to Naval Expeditionary Forces, who handle a variety of ground-based missions including ordnance disposal. The radios will provide the Navy with both line-of-sight and beyond line-of-sight communication capabilities for its various missions.
The company’s Falcon family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications. Falcon III is the next generation of radios supporting the U.S. military’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) requirements, as well as network-centric operations worldwide.
The company also said it has received $12 million in orders for Falcon III and II systems from an undisclosed nation in the Middle East.
Harris is supplying this country’s Ministry of Defence with Falcon III RF-7800W High-Capacity Line-of-Sight radios, which deliver greater bandwidth for transmission of data such as streaming video. The RF-7800W provides a quick-to-deploy, point-to-point or point-to-multipoint wireless Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure. The customer will be using the radios for high-bandwidth data communication between mobile or fixed operations centers.
Additionally, the company is providing the customer with Falcon II RF-5800H high-frequency radios for beyond line-of-sight communications in the most demanding battlefield environments such as mountainous terrain. These radios feature Third Generation-Automatic Link Establishment (3G-ALE), integrated data link protocols and embedded GPS receivers, as well as secure interoperability with other HF radio systems.