Harris Radios Link Army's IBCS

March 31, 2010
Harris Corporation has been awarded a $25-million contract by Northrop Grumman for high-band networked radios for the United States Army's new Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). The system is designed to integrate the ...
Harris Corporation has been awarded a $25-million contract by Northrop Grumman for high-band networked radios for the United States Army's new Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). The system is designed to integrate the fire-control networks of current and future air and missile defense systems, operating with any combination of sensors and weapons in an open-architecture environment. The Harris Highband Networking Radio (HNR) employs directive beam technology to achieve higher throughput over a self-forming and self-healing directional mesh network. The Harris HNR system is a part of the US Army's WIN-T Increment 2 program. Harris will supply radios for the five-year life of the program. As Wes Covell, President of Harris Defense Programs, explains, "Our Highband Networking Radio will provide the solid, yet mobile, communications backbone required to ensure critical information on the IBCS reaches the right location at the right time." IBCS will integrate a number of systems, including the Patriot missile, Improved Sentinel Radar, and Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) systems.
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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

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