Jane Edwards

Australia’s military has placed a $55 million order to a Harris Corp. division for logistics and technical support services on the country’s tactical radio systems. Harris RF Communications will carry out training, maintenance, distribution and engineering work for ADF under the Joint Project 2072 Battlespace Communications platform, Harris said Tuesday. Harris said the Australian military uses handheld, manpack and vehicular […] More

A Mercury Systems division has secured a $7.6 million order to provide digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. The order received by Mercury Defense Systems is a follow-on to a five-year basic ordering agreement awarded by the service branch, Mercury Systems said Monday. Brian Perry, president of Mercury Defense Systems, said the […] More

Cisco and Kansas City, Missouri have agreed to launch a framework that aims to further help carry out the delivery of public services through what the company calls “smart city” applications. Cisco said Monday it has tapped Sprint to build and oversee a Wi-Fi network that will work to connect applications for the Smart+Connected Communities platform. […] More

ICF International will continue to provide technical support services for the U.S. Army’s Product Manager Force Sustainment Systems unit under a five-year, $35 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The single-award contract calls for ICF to help PMFSS technical teams and its Massachusetts-based integration laboratory to build new base camps and evaluate and maintain new equipment for such camps, the company said […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries business Ingalls Shipbuilding has turned over the Legend-class cutter James to the U.S. Coast Guard. The service received the national security cutter Friday and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Boston on Aug. 8, HII said Friday. Jim French, NSC program manager at Ingalls Shipbuilding, said the NSC program “continues to prove the benefits of […] More

A General Dynamics subsidiary has completed phase two tests on a long-term evolution technology under the Public Safety Communications Research Program that seeks to improve communications for first responders. The integration of Band Class 14 eNodeB system from General Dynamics Mission Systems with vehicle modems enabled the LTE site to communicate at a range of […] More