Harris Corporation to Provide Multiband Shipboard SATCOM Terminal for U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship
October 24 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation
(NYSE:HRS), a world leader in multiband military satellite
communication (SATCOM) terminal systems, today announced that it
has been awarded a 12-month contract awarded by the U.S. Navy to
provide a Harris AN/WSC-6E(V)9 Multiband Shipboard Satellite
Communications Terminal (MSSCT) for the Lockheed Martin Littoral
Combat Ship. This is the second AN/WSC-6E(V)9 contract award to
Harris for the Littoral Combat Ship program. Harris is providing
the SATCOM terminal systems for both Lockheed Martin and General
Dynamics, which are competing for the ultimate production award of
more than 50 ships. The announcement was made during MILCOM 2006
(Harris Booth #413), being held October 23-25 at the Marriott
Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. The Littoral Combat Ship will
be a "networked" ship, relying on both manned and unmanned vehicles
to complete its missions. These vehicles will communicate with the
ship and other platforms via advanced communications technology.
"Our presence on the Littoral Combat Ship keeps Harris squarely at
the forefront of cutting-edge, multi-band SATCOM terminal solutions
for the U.S. Navy and confirms our commitment to providing products
that enable the warfighter to safely complete the mission," said
Sheldon Fox, vice president and general manager of Department of
Defense Programs, Harris Government Communications Systems
Division. "The MSSCT has become the Navy standard for wideband
SATCOM on ships, and our terminals provide extremely high levels of
SATCOM availability." The Harris AN/WSC-6E(V)9 is the latest
terminal in the Harris family of shipboard wideband products,
providing reliable, high-data-rate X- and C-band communications to
deployed small combatant and support ships. The enhanced,
simultaneous X-/Ka-band communications capability enables the
Littoral Combat Ship to communicate with the Wideband Gapfiller
Satellites, increasing the available bandwidth to the ship. The
terminal also will provide Global Broadcast System communications
capability, allowing sailors to receive large amounts of critical
information ranging from national intelligence to weather imagery.
The terminal's high bandwidth will enable the ship to support the
Navy's FORCEnet vision by operating as a network node, which can
collect mission data from off-board platforms and relay this data
to other nodes. Harris GCSD conducts advanced research studies,
develops prototypes, and produces and supports state-of-the-art,
assured communications(TM) solutions and information systems that
solve the mission-critical challenges of its military and
government customers, while serving as the technology base for the
company's diverse commercial businesses. Harris Corporation is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual sales of $3.5 billion and 14,000 employees -- including more
than 6,000 engineers and scientists. The company's four operating
divisions serve markets for government communications, RF
communications, broadcast communications, and microwave
communications. For more information, visit http://www.harris.com/.
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CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer, Government Communications Systems
Division, +1-321-727-6514, or , or Brent Dietz, Corporate
Headquarters, +1-321-724-3554, or , both of Harris Corporation Web
site: http://www.harris.com/ http://www.careers.harris.com/
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