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Lockheed Martin Offers ‘Network In A Box’

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] is answering the need to enable military vehicles to serve multiple mission roles by offering soldiers a mobile network in a carrying case. Lockheed Martin's Communications-on-the-Move (COTM) kit gives warfighters access to various networks without having to incorporate racks of equipment in their vehicles. "Lockheed Martin offers the potential for each vehicle to be a network node without having to return to a depot for extensive installation of communications equipment," said Jim Quinn, vice president of C4ISR…

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