Increment 3 Components Will Advance On-The-Move Networking Capabilities of Warfighters
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LandWarNet, Booth 715 -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received a contract update from Lockheed Martin to continue development work on wireless networking technology under Increment 3 of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. Harris successfully completed recent major testing and evaluation milestones on the U.S. Army's WIN-T program and is continuing work on the next generation of military tactical communications systems. Harris is a member of the WIN-T team led by General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin.
WIN-T Increment 3 significantly extends the capabilities of the current Increment 2 Line-Of-Sight (LOS) wireless networking technology. Harris is responsible for key LOS radio system components for Increment 3 that, once awarded, will extend the scope of the Harris work on WIN-T and bring the company's total award value to more than $130 million from 2007 to 2012. The follow-on production program is expected to include hundreds of systems per year between 2012 and 2021.
"Harris has been on the Lockheed Martin WIN-T team since 2002 and continues to be a valued and critical team member on both Increment 2 and Increment 3," stated Amy Krause, Lockheed Martin WIN-T Portfolio Manager. "LM looks forward to continuing to work with Harris in support of WIN-T new business in 2009 and beyond." Under the continuing Increment 3 contract, Harris will complete development, test and qualification of the Highband Digital Transceiver (HDT) modem hardware and multiple variants of the Highband RF Unit (HRFU) antenna.
"Increment 3 will demonstrate more of the potential power and unique capabilities of the Highband Networking Waveform for the Army's WIN-T platform," said Wes Covell, president of Defense Programs for Harris Government Communications Systems. "By implementing more advanced processing capabilities and enhanced antenna technology, this new system delivers twice the throughput and provides greater range performance compared to Increment 2, in order to broaden the Army's full range of secure, mobile networking requirements as it continues its transition to a network-centric fighting force."
Harris successfully completed the Development Test (DT) and Engineering Field Test (EFT) with General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and the WIN-T program office using the Highband Networking Radio(TM) (HNR) at Fort Huachuca, in preparation for an Increment 2 Limited User Test (LUT) event which was recently executed at Fort Stewart and Fort Lewis. This is a major milestone in the WIN-T Increment 2 program, which precedes Increment 3 in the successive technology deployment strategy of the WIN-T program.
