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Lockheed Martin Selects General Dynamics For JTRS AMF Work

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Friday, April 18th, 2008

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The Lockheed Martin [LMT] Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Site (AMF) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) team has awarded a contract worth up to $140 million to General Dynamics [GD] to develop and integrate the maritime and fixed-site joint tactical radio capabilities and provide information assurance services. JTRS is a family of advanced communication systems expected to replace current radios in all the services and provide secure Internet-like capabilities and networking to include voice, text, audio, and video. An essential part…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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