Harris Corp. Awarded U.S. Navy Contract

Harris Corporation has been awarded a $12 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling price of $41 million from the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The contract is for shipboard high-frequency (HF) radio communications systems.

Harris’s RF Communications Division, headquartered in Rochester, New York, will supply HF broadband communications systems for Navy warships, including San Antonio-class amphibious transport ships, Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers.

This is the third contract Harris RF Communications has received to provide radio systems in support of the Navy’s effort to update the HF systems of its fleet. The company is a premier supplier to the U.S. Navy of these broadband systems that provide higher levels of automation and reliability, thus lowering overall operational and life-cycle costs.

The High Frequency Radio Group (HFRG) system offers the Navy a set of HF communications building blocks that can be configured to satisfy a variety of naval platforms. Harris has delivered systems to the U.S. Navy under previous HFRG contracts for installation on nine different hull platforms.

Harris will use its experience with configuring elements such as receiver/exciters, power amplifiers, couplers, and controllers in this modular system as it seeks to support the concepts and goals set forth in the Joint Tactical Radio System Airborne, Maritime, Fixed Station (JTRS AMF) procurement effort (formerly referred to as JTRS Clusters 3 and 4).

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