The National Spectrum Consortium has awarded Harris a three-year contract to produce a narrowband mode of the Defense Department‘s Soldier Radio Waveform. Harris said Wednesday the narrowband SRW will be designed to help reduce spectrum requirements for the deployment of an infantry brigade combat team and expand the warfighter’s point-to-point communications range. “The new narrowband waveform is part of the U.S. Army’s […] More

The National Security Agency has certified Harris‘ Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack radio system to operate with the Defense Department‘s Mobile User Objective System waveform. The Type-1 NSA certification validates the security measures Harris has put in place to facilitate military data and voice communications through the multiband networking radio technology, the company said Wednesday. Chris Young, president of Harris’ communication systems segment, […] More

Harris Corp. has been awarded a $12 million contract to update a tactical radio system the U.S. Air Force uses as the communication platform for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. The company will manufacture Falcon III AN/PRC-152A wideband networking handheld radios to provide voice and high-speed networked data to Air Force troops, Harris said Wednesday. […] More

Harris Corp. has landed a $17 million order from a Middle East nation for the supply of multiband networking radios. The company will provide RF-7850M Falcon III radios to the customer as part of the country’s tactical communications modernization program, Harris said Thursday. Chris Young, president of Harris’ communications systems business, said that the radio supply aims to […] More

Harris Corp. will supply Falcon III tactical radios to an unnamed country in Africa under an $11 million contract. The contract covers the Harris-built RF-7800H-MP manpack radio, RF-7850M-HH handheld radio and the RF-7800V-HH VHF Combat Net Radio, Harris said Tuesday. The unnamed African country placed the order as part of its communications modernization program, the company added. […] More

Intel Security has renewed its strategy to focus on integrated and open security system in an effort to help customers combat cyber attacks. The new corporate strategy is intended to bolster endpoint and cloud security systems by unifying the threat defense lifecycle, Intel said Tuesday. “The rising volume and complexity of attacks present a vicious cycle […] More

Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager of Intel‘s security group, has said in an interview that regular software updates could help safeguard connected automobiles from potential cyber attacks. “When you find vulnerabilities or things that are wrong, the sooner you can respond and update your software on the device, the better the overall protections […] More

Exelis is featuring products for its ISR, analytics and critical networks portfolio at the GEOINT Symposium Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Fla. This will be Exelis’ 10th year of attendance at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium, the company announced Monday. “The GEOINT symposium is a key event that brings together the most […] More

The Ohio State University has selected Chris Bush, a corporate vice president and manager of business development at Parsons, to receive the university’s 2015 Ralph Boyer Young Achiever Award. OSU’s mechanical and aerospace engineering department is set to present the award to Bush at an event that will be held Friday on campus, Parsons said […] More

“Innovation is positive disruption…And give us true innovation and solve problems, not incrementally automate the things that we already know how to do,” said the U.S. Army's Young Bang at ExecutiveBiz’s Army Acquisition Priorities Forum on Wednesday.

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Chris Zeiders, former vice president of technology at DRT Strategies, has taken on the same role at Federal Resource Corporation, an Erie, Pennsylvania-headquartered information technology services provider. Prior to his appointment, Zeiders spent more than seven years at DRT Strategies, where he oversaw the delivery of technology modernization tools and services to U.S. government customers […] More

The all-stock merger between L3 Technologies and Harris Corp. has been completed to form L3Harris Technologies (LHX), the new company announced on Monday. L3Harris is officially the sixth largest defense company in the United States worth approximately $17 billion in revenue with over 50,000 employees. The company also announced the details regarding its own leadership, the board of directors and organizational structure. 

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