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L-3 Selected By Lockheed Martin For Communications in UK’s Desert Hawk III

Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] selected L-3 [LLL] to provide its MICRO Secure Digital Data Link (MICRO SDDL) as the secure command & control and ISR communications backbone for the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) digital Desert Hawk III DDL small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) platform, L-3 said on Dec. 1. L-3 SCM said the MICRO SDDL transceivers enable peak utilization of frequency spectrum through a single RF channel supporting an IP-based bidirectional TDMA secure communications link. The transceiver provides a durable…

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