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Rockwell Collins Delivers First Block 1 Mod To Navy

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Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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Rockwell Collins [COL] Feb. 25 delivered the first installation of the Block I modification to the U.S. Navy's E-6B Mercury aircraft. Navy officials, Rockwell Collins senior leaders and L-3 Communications [LLL] leadership celebrated the milestone during a roll-out ceremony held at the L-3 Integrated Systems facility in Waco, Texas. The Block I Modification features an open system architecture for mission avionics, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Intercommunications System (ICS) and an on-aircraft, multi-level secure network for message processing, radio…

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