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Air Force

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates AMF JTRS Maturity At Desert Evaluation

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

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Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Airborne and Maritime/Fixed station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) is demonstrating the maturity of the complex system installed on a Boeing [BA] AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 12.1 at Ft. Bliss, Texas and White Sands Missile Range, N.M, a company official said. “Our objective in NIE was to not only showcase AMF JTRS maturity but also show the power of AMF JTRS coupled to the Apache in the scenarios we’re involved in,”…

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