THE HF COMMUNICATIONS RENAISSANCE As combat environments, including space, become more contested, military customers require easy-to-use robust, cost-effective Beyond-Line-Of-Sight communications in the absence of satellite availability.
L3Harris’ high-frequency radio solutions provide On-the-Move communications in satellite-denied environments.
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U.S. armed forces have renewed interest in L3Harris Technologies’ high-frequency communications solutions, including the Falcon III® AN/PRC-160 High Frequency (HF) radio. The U.S. Army announced last October that it had ordered more than 1,500 AN/PRC-160 HF radios. The U.S. Marine Corps followed suit that December and informed L3Harris of a $50 million follow-on delivery order for the radios as part of its High Frequency Radio II (HFR II) modernization program. And, in March 2020, the Marine Corps awarded L3Harris a five-year, $383 million ceiling, single-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract — with an initial delivery order of $89 million — for Falcon III AN/PRC-160 HF radios as part of its High Frequency Radio II program. “HFR II will fill much of the same needs that the legacy HFR system provide: longhaul communications, and the primary backup mode of communications in a Satellite Communications-denied environment,” Leigh King, Marine Corps Systems Command’s project officer for the HFR II, said in a Marine Corps Systems Command press release. As the global leader in tactical communications, L3Harris Technologies is on the cutting edge of advancements in HF communications. Through continuous innovation, our radios and related equipment deliver new and enhanced capabilities never before possible with legacy HF radios.
