Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI), a joint venture between Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Cobham plc, has been awarded the first production delivery order of the AN/VIC-5 enhanced vehicular communication system for the Army.
NGCI holds a $2.4 billion indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with the Army that was awarded in 2009 for the delivery of the AN/VIC-5 system, which completed validation and verification testing earlier this year.
The production delivery order marks the official beginning of the program’s production and deployment phase.
“AN/VIC-5 is the most advanced vehicular intercommunications system available to meet the demanding environment encountered by our soldiers,” said Kay Burch, co-chair of the NGCI board of directors and vice president of Northrop Grumman’s communications, intelligence and networking solutions business unit.
AN/VIC-5 is an integrated intercom system supporting Internet communications to soldiers on the battlefield, a successor to the AN/VIC-3, which has been proven in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We’re excited to provide this enhanced capability to the warfighter and look forward to working with the Army to continue to evolve this product as future needs arise,” said Daniel Gelston, co-chair of the NGCI board of directors and vice president of Cobham’s Tactical Communications and Surveillance business unit.
AN/VIC-5 comprises a range of control consoles, operator stations, cables and headsets, and the architecture scales to accommodate a number of platform requirements.