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October 12th, 2011

Harris... Poland Becomes The Eighth (Comms)


[SatNews] LOS and BLOS capabilities will now be part of this military's repertoire...

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received $5 million in orders to supply Harris Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radios to the Republic of Poland. These radios will provide the country's armed forces with ground-to-ground and ground-to-air tactical communications in both line-of-sight and beyond line-of-sight environments. Poland becomes the eighth country to acquire the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G, a first-of-its-kind radio system that delivers mobile ad-hoc networking, voice and wideband data communications to the battlefield. Software-defined and upgradeable, the AN/PRC-117G supports a growing number of network-enabled missions with streaming video, collaborative chat and other combat applications. In addition to Poland, the AN/PRC-117G has been acquired by the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Slovakia and Australia. Harris has shipped more than 15,000 of these radios worldwide, with more than a third deployed in support of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.