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Harris providing Australia with support for radio system

by Richard Tomkins Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Jun 10, 2015 UPI

The Australian Defense Force is to receive comprehensive technical and logistics support from the Harris Corporation in the use of Harris tactical radios.

The contract is worth $55 million and comes under the country's Joint Project 2072 Battlespace Communications program.

"The wide-ranging technical and logistics support will optimize the investment the Australian government has made in Harris tactical radios and strengthen our long-term, collaborative relationship," said Alan Callaghan, vice president, International Sales and managing director, Asia Pacific, Harris RF Communications.

The Australian military uses Harris Falcon III software-defined multiband, multi-mode radios in manpack, handheld and vehicular configurations. The radios provide wideband tactical networking capabilities and line-of-sight, ground-to-air and tactical satellite communications.

Harris said that under the contract, it will provide maintenance, training, warehouse and distribution, and engineering support for the radios under a turnkey, performance-based contract model.

Information on the contract performance period was not provided.

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