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General Dynamics C4 Contract Mod To Develop WIN-T UAS Payload

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems recently announced it has been awarded a $12.4 million contract modification to the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 3 contract by the Army to lead a defense-industry team in the development of a line-of-sight communications payload for Extended Range/Multi-purpose (ER/MP) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Once aboard the UAS, the WIN-T communications payload will use the Highband Networking Waveform (HNW) to serve as a radio repeater while the UAS is in flight, the company said. This…

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