Harris Corporation Receives $18 Million Order From U.S. Air Force for Falcon III(R) AN/PRC-117G Multiband Manpack Radios
February 17 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
AN/PRC-117G Radio Will Provide Air Force with High-Performance
Communications Platform to Expand Use of Streaming Video and Other
High-Bandwidth Applications ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 17
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an
international communications and information technology company,
has received an $18 million order from the U.S. Air Force Special
Operations Command's Battlefield Air Operations office for the
Harris Falcon III AN/PRC-117G wideband tactical radio system. The
Air Force is acquiring the AN/PRC-117G to expand the use of
high-bandwidth data applications. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G is the
first JTRS-approved tactical radio to offer reliable and secure
access to high-bandwidth applications -- such as streaming video,
reconnaissance information, and biometrics -- in addition to
narrowband legacy waveforms. The radio is certified by the Joint
Interoperability Test Command (JITC) as compliant with Demand
Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) military standards and upgradeable
to access the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), both for
transmitting high-bandwidth voice and data over tactical military
satellites. The AN/PRC-117G includes a Remote Operated Video
Enhanced Receiver (ROVER) interoperable mode that provides Air
Force personnel on the battlefield with the ability to receive live
video directly from unmanned aerial vehicles systems (UAVs). This
capability allows a dismounted soldier to carry only one radio in
situations where two radios were previously required. The
AN/PRC-117G previously received Type-1 information security
certification from the National Security Agency. "The AN/PRC-117G
will provide the Air Force with significantly advanced
communications capabilities in a smaller package, which is
increasingly important in today's mobile warfighting environment,"
said Dana Mehnert, president, Harris RF Communications. "This radio
will allow Air Force personnel to better manage the battle by
providing simultaneous voice, data and text capability. The radio
is half the weight of the legacy radios currently fielded,
significantly lightening the soldier's load, and offers a high
degree of mobility, security, and survivability." The AN/PRC-117G
offers an extended frequency range of 30 MHz to 2 GHz. The radio
currently runs the Harris Advanced Networking Wideband Waveform
(ANW2) and is designed for future upgrade to the Soldier Radio
Waveform (SRW). Both waveforms provide advanced networking
capability to the battlefield. The radio delivers IP data to the
tactical Internet at on-air rates of up to 5 Mbps. Harris RF
Communications is the leading global supplier of secure radio
communications products and systems for military, government and
commercial organizations. The company's Falcon(R) family of
software-defined tactical radio products and systems include
manpack, handheld, vehicular, strategic fixed-site and shipboard
applications. Falcon III is the next-generation of radios developed
to address the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
requirements. About Harris Corporation Harris is an international
communications and information technology company serving
government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual revenue
of $5.4 billion and 16,000 employees -- including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications(R) products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at http://www.harris.com/. DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation
CONTACT: Kevin Aman of RF Communications, +1-585-241-8186, , or Jim
Burke, Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131, , both of Harris
Corporation Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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