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Raytheon Awarded $12 Million Contract For Communications Integration
McKinney TX (SPX) Sep 26, 2006 The U.S. Army continues to standardize and upgrade its communications systems with the award of a $12 million contract to Raytheon. The award for 15 Multiplexer Integration and Digital Communication Satellite Subsystem Automation Systems, or MIDAS, is part of a five-year, $48 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded in 2004. MIDAS, currently deployed by the Army, is designed to improve voice and data communications by providing more efficient and cost-effective data communications switching and routing functions. These functions allow geographically dispersed users, at all levels of security, immediate, automated access to voice, data, and video communications. In addition to improving communications bandwidth, Raytheon's MIDAS design maintains interoperability with existing communications infrastructure and enables the Army to use its manpower more efficiently because of the system's simplified design. An added enhancement is its smaller size, which reduces the need for the rows of equipment and miles of cables previously required in worldwide Army communications facilities. "MIDAS provides the Army and, more importantly, the warfighter an improved communications capability for infrastructure already fielded and in theater," said Jerry Powlen, vice president, Network Centric Systems' Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Raytheon Read the latest in Military Space Communications Technology at SpaceWar.com Read the latest in Military Space Communications Technology at SpaceWar.com
DoD Cuts Ribbon On Joint Intelligence Resource Center
Washington DC (AFNS) Sep 22, 2006In keeping with the high-tech nature of intelligence collection today, officials snipped a ribbon in cyberspace to open U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance here Sept. 13. |
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