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Raytheon Receives $406 Million For Army Aircraft Radio Upgrades

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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Raytheon Receives $406 Million For Army Aircraft Radio Upgrades

UH-60M Blackhawk Photo: Sikorsky

Raytheon [RTN] said Thursday it has received a $406 million contract to continue providing hardware support and software upgrades for Army aircraft radio systems. Under the contract, originally awarded on Feb. 7, Raytheon will support upgrades for up to 5,000 of its ARC-231A Skyfire radios currently used on the Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk, UH-72 Lakota and AH-64 Apache helicopters. "These radios are the backbone of rotary-wing communications. The ARC-231A enables U.S. forces to maintain the edge in secure communications, whether…

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