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L3Harris To Upgrade Rover Under $90 Million Army Contract

L3Harris To Upgrade Rover Under $90 Million Army Contract
General Atomics RQ-1 predator is one of the drones using Rover. Photo: General Atomics

L3Harris [LHX] is to upgrade its Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver (Rover) under the terms of a $90 million contract with the U.S. Army, but the company said the Army has advised no release of the numbers of the new receivers to be fielded with ground maneuver forces in the Brigade Combat Teams. Developed after Sept. 11, 2001 under the Air Force's Big Safari program for special mission aircraft, Rover initially served to give Lockheed Martin [LMT] AC-130 gunships real-time…

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