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Thales Delivery Orders Will Field Nearly 40,000 JTRS Handheld Radios

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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

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Thales announced Oct. 29 two awards for its AN/PRC-148 JTRS handheld radio from the Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) under the Consolidated, Interim, Single-channel, Handheld Radio (CISCHR) contract. The delivery orders will field almost 40,000 AN/PRC-148 JTRS Enhanced MBITRs (JEMs), as well as ancillaries, with an aggregate total contract value exceeding $128 million. The most recent JPEO award was on behalf of the Army and was the first delivery order for the service under the…

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