
Harris [HRS] has received a $75 million order from the Marine Corps to upgrade the force’s Falcon III manpack radios with the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communication capability, the company said Monday. With the task order, the Marines will become the first service to widely deploy MUOS, the next-generation narrowband SATCOM capability, across its radios. “Adding this capability to the [Falcon III] AN/PRC-117G will enable the Marines to leverage the proven radios they have already deployed, fought and…