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General Micro Systems Achieves Two 2023 Military and Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

General Micro Systems (GMS) announced today that its X9 Spider AI System and X9 Spider Manpack were recognized among the best by the 2023 Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards program.

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  • General Micro Systems (GMS) announced today that its X9 Spider AI System and X9 Spider Manpack were recognized among the best by the 2023 Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards program.
  • These awards were developed to showcase the most innovative solutions in aerospace and defense products and systems for the engineering industry.
  • GMS products received platinum awards which are characterized by a groundbreaking approach to meeting a need and/or a new level of performance, efficiency, ease-of-use or other beneficial quality.
  • The 2023 Innovators Award winners are selected by the qualified judging panel chosen by the editorial staff at Military & Aerospace Electronics.

General Micro Systems Wins Three ‘Best of Show’ Awards at AUSA

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

AUSA 2023 – Three new General Micro Systems (GMS) innovations won Best of Show from Military Embedded Systems magazine at the Association for the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C. this week.

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  • AUSA 2023 – Three new General Micro Systems (GMS) innovations won Best of Show from Military Embedded Systems magazine at the Association for the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C. this week.
  • The X9 Spider Intelligent Switch earned four-star designation in the Embedded Computing category and the X9 Spider Rugged Thunderbolt™ Display, and the X9 Manpack, GMS’ portable mission computer, earned four-star designation in the Rugged Computing category.
  • “When we introduced our X9 Spider distributing computing architecture at AUSA last year, we knew we had a winning and innovative concept – and these awards, coupled with strong customer interest, validates it,” said Ben Sharfi, CEO and chief architect, GMS.
  • The X9 Spider Intelligent Switch is an accelerated networking module designed to improve the performance of Ethernet-based military applications without compromising size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements.

General Micro Systems (GMS) Demonstrates X9 Spider Manpack Mobile, Rugged Tablet, X9 Artificial Intelligence Computer and Mission Computer at AUSA 2023

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Monday, October 9, 2023

At AUSA 2023 today (booth 8307), General Micro Systems unveiled multiple live demonstrations of its X9 Spider open distributed computing architecture (DCA) products, including the X9 Manpack, the X9 Thunderbolt Rugged Display, the X9 AI (artificial intelligence), and the X9 Mission Computer.

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  • At AUSA 2023 today (booth 8307), General Micro Systems unveiled multiple live demonstrations of its X9 Spider open distributed computing architecture (DCA) products, including the X9 Manpack, the X9 Thunderbolt Rugged Display, the X9 AI (artificial intelligence), and the X9 Mission Computer.
  • “Combining our X9 Spider Mission Computer with a manpack housing creates our X9 Spider Manpack computer,” said Ben Sharfi, CEO and Chief Architect of GMS.
  • The heart of the X9 Manpack and every host-based X9 Spider system, the X9 Spider Mission Computer offers nearly 400Gbits/s of maximum throughput I/O.
  • The AUSA 2023 demonstration shows the X9’s open distributed computing architecture (DCA) connected via LightBolt or Ethernet to several X9 peripherals, including X9 Workstation I/O, X9 Storage and X9 Switch.

L3Harris Receives US Marine Corps Orders for Multi-Channel Radios

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) announced orders totaling $160 million from the Marine Corps for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems, bringing total program orders to $336 million.

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  • L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) announced orders totaling $160 million from the Marine Corps for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems, bringing total program orders to $336 million.
  • The two new orders from the Marine Corps are under a 10-year, competitively awarded $750 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for L3Harris Falcon IV® manpack and handheld radios.
  • “The resilient communications our battle-proven radios and secure waveforms offer allow Marines to talk to each other with confidence and exchange information at faster rates,” said Chris Aebli, President, Tactical Communications, L3Harris.
  • The latest Marine Corps commitments follow two Falcon IV orders from the U.S. Army last year totaling $235 million.

CODAN ACHIEVES 2G ALE JITC COMPLIANCE FOR SENTRY-H 6110-MP RADIO

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Monday, March 27, 2023

Ashburn, Virginia, United States, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After comprehensive testing and verification, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), of the United States Defence Information Systems Agency, has announced that the Codan Sentry-H 6110-MP tactical HF manpack radio complies with all mandatory requirements of the MIL-SDT-188-141B, Appendix A Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) standard.

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  • Ashburn, Virginia, United States, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After comprehensive testing and verification, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), of the United States Defence Information Systems Agency, has announced that the Codan Sentry-H 6110-MP tactical HF manpack radio complies with all mandatory requirements of the MIL-SDT-188-141B, Appendix A Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) standard.
  • “JITC 2G ALE certification provides assurance to our customers that the Sentry-H 6110-MP Manpack radio meets latest interoperability criteria with other HF vendors, according to the US military standard”, Codan’s VP of Engineering & Operations, Dr. Jack Sudarev explains.
  • “Achieving JITC certification for the latest Codan HF SDR Manpack demonstrates our commitment to interoperability for critical missions undertaken by coalition and partner forces."

L3Harris Receives Radio Production Orders Worth $235 Million Under U.S. Army’s HMS Contract

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) announced receipt today of two production orders totaling $235 million to provide leader and manpack radios for the U.S. Army.

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  • L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) announced receipt today of two production orders totaling $235 million to provide leader and manpack radios for the U.S. Army.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221011006095/en/
    L3Harris AN/PRC-163 Leader and AN/PRC-158 Manpack radios deliver leading-edge resilient communications capabilities for warfighters in the field as part of the U.S. Armys HMS program.
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    The AN/PRC-163 Leader and AN/PRC-158 Manpack radios are part of the U.S. Armys Handheld, Manpack & Small Form Fit (HMS) program .
  • These second, full-rate production orders deliver multi-mission networking capability for warfighters in the field.

Global Tactical Communication Market Research Report 2022 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The "Tactical Communication Market Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Platform, Type, Technology and Application" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Tactical Communication Market Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Platform, Type, Technology and Application" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The Tactical Communication market is expected to grow from US$ 18,122.45 million in 2022 to US$ 29,142.61 million by 2028; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 8.2% from 2022 to 2028.
  • Thus, several major industry players in the tactical communication market, including Leonardo S.p.A (Italy) and Lockheed Martin (the US), are emphasizing developing and offering tactical communication systems for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform, which is propelling the growth of the tactical communication market.
  • Some of the key tactical communication market players profiled in this market study include BAE Systems PLC, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Thales Group, General Dynamics Corporation, and Elbit Systems Ltd.
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Kumu Networks Awarded $1.5M Applied SBIR Phase 2 Contract to Develop the Highest Performing Self-Interference Cancellation Module to Date

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Kumu Networks today announced that it has received a $1.5M Direct to Phase 2 SBIR project from the US Army.

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  • Kumu Networks today announced that it has received a $1.5M Direct to Phase 2 SBIR project from the US Army.
  • Minimizing self-interference from friendly and enemy jammers is a key enabler for the current and future connected battlefield, said Kumu Networks CEO David Cutrer.
  • As part of the project, Kumu will utilize its patented Self-Interference Cancellation platform to construct the highest performing Full-Duplex Module created to date.
  • Current Kumu Full-Duplex modules already deliver ~80dB of cancellation (eight orders of magnitude interference cancellation).