{"id":30914,"date":"2020-04-29T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/04\/29\/l3harris-and-collins-split-203m-order-for-army-radios\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:38:13","slug":"l3harris-and-collins-split-203m-order-for-army-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2020\/04\/29\/l3harris-and-collins-split-203m-order-for-army-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris and Collins split $203M order for Army radios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Army is ordering second-generation manpack radios<\/a> from L3Harris Technologies and Collins Aerospace worth $203.2 million, ahead of a forthcoming operational test that will inform a full-rate production decision next fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army said April 29 it awarded a negotiated bilateral firm-fixed-price delivery orders to Collins, of Iowa, and L3Harris, of New York, for a total of 3,440 (1,720 each) radios and ancillaries. Delivery, which is part of its third low-rate production order, are to begin in the first quarter of fiscal 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The radios are a key element to what the service calls the integrated tactical network, the concept behind the Army\u2019s modernized battlefield network which will incrementally add capabilities units every two years beginning in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The orders will support the ITN and tactical satellite modernization efforts, as well as security force assistance brigades and future deployments, according to the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T).<\/p>\n\n\n\t