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Northrop Grumman, ITT Exelis, Team For New Army Radio

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and ITT Exelis [XLS] yesterday said they have teamed to compete for the Army's new vehicle-mounted, software-defined radio. The Army issued a draft request for proposals Nov. 4 for the Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio (MNVR). The radio is expected to replace canceled Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) being developed by Boeing [BA]. The GMR incurred cost growth of more than 50 percent, primarily due to a reduction in the numbers of radios to…

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