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L3Harris To Provide Integrated Communications For Initial Offshore Patrol Cutters

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 19th, 2020

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L3Harris To Provide Integrated Communications For Initial Offshore Patrol Cutters

Notional OPC design. Graphic on Coast Guard website courtesy of Eastern Shipbuilding.

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] said it has been awarded a contract by Eastern Shipbuilding Group to provide the integrated communications systems for the Coast Guard’s first four medium-endurance Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs). The value of the award was not disclosed. L3Harris currently supplies the C4ISR suite for the Coast Guard’s shorter-range Fast Response Cutters and the integrated communications for the high-endurance National Security Cutters. The award for the OPC includes the design, development and production of the first two ship systems…

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