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Harris Corp. To Produce Wideband Manpack tactical Radios For Special Operations Command

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

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Harris Corp. [HRS] said it has received orders totaling $81 million for its Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G wideband manpack tactical radios from the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The radios will allow SOCOM to broadly deploy Type-1 secure wideband tactical communications and ISR capabilities. The orders are part of a new indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded to Harris to support SOCOM's Capital Equipment Replacement Program. This program represents the initial phases of the modernization of the SOCOM tactical radio inventory.…

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