{"id":58456,"date":"2020-12-11T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-receives-57m-order-from-us-army-for-two-channel-handheld-radios\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:11:07","slug":"l3harris-receives-57m-order-from-us-army-for-two-channel-handheld-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-receives-57m-order-from-us-army-for-two-channel-handheld-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris Receives $57M Order From US Army for Two-Channel Handheld Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>L3Harris<\/b> announced Dec. 9 it has received a $57 million order from the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong> to continue delivering its Falcon IV AN\/PRC-163 two-channel handheld radios.<\/p>\n<p>This is the company\u2019s third low-rate initial production deal for the AN-PRC-163 handheld radios, with deliveries expected to begin in early 2021. The product is capable of satellite communications, mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) waveforms and the Army\u2019s SINCGARS waveform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AN\/PRC-163 is the most capable handheld radio in the market. It provides warfighters with a broad range of secure interoperable communications capabilities today and the ability to host resilient waveforms required to address evolving future requirements,\u201d Dana Mehnert, L3Harris\u2019 president for Communication Systems, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>L3Harris is currently providing its software-defined AN\/PRC-163 handheld radios and AN\/PRC-158 manpack radios under the $3.9 billion Leader Radio program, which also includes&nbsp;<b>Collins Aerospace<\/b> and France\u2019s <b>Thales<\/b>, to begin building up its new Integrated Tactical Network (ITN).<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Smith, L3Harris\u2019 vice president of business development for Communications Systems, told <i>Defense Daily&nbsp;<\/i>earlier this year the company is expecting a full-rate production decision for the two-channel Leader radios in 2021 as the Army looks to field large quantities throughout the service to solidify the ITN.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L3Harris announced Dec. 9 it has received a $57 million order from the U.S. Army to continue delivering its Falcon IV AN\/PRC-163 two-channel handheld radios. This is the company\u2019s third low-rate initial production deal for the AN-PRC-163 handheld radios, with deliveries expected to begin in early 2021. The product is capable of satellite communications, mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}