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| Press Release Tuesday July 1st, 2008 - Contract Amendment valued at US$ 18,100,000 |
| Tuesday, July 1, 2008 |
(Montreal, July 1, 2008) Ultra Electronics Tactical Communication Systems (Ultra TCS) has achieved a major milestone having been awarded US$ 100,000,000 since January 2008, under contact no. DAAB07-98-C-F505.
“This year marks our 10th year under contract to the US Army to supply the GRC-245 HCLOS™ radio. Ultra TCS was the 1st company to have delivered high capacity Software Defined Radios for the military tactical environment” states Alan Barker, president of Ultra Electronics Tactical Systems Division. “We are all proud, here at Ultra TCS, of having been selected, among several multi-national defense contractors, to modernize the US Army’s high capacity radio backbone.”
The AN/GRC-245A HCLOS™ radio is a state-of-the-art Software Defined Radio (SDR) using the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) open framework. The HCLOS™ radio is currently shipping with 16Mb/s capacity but is software-upgradeable to 34Mb/s full-duplex capacity. Ultra-TCS has already delivered thousands of HCLOS™ radios to North American and International customers, many of which are operating in the most demanding battlefield conditions. Many thousands more HCLOS&trade radios are on order.
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