NYSE, HRS, Military, Aerospace, Electronics, Avionics, Intelligence, Pennwell, Defense, Technology, Airplane, Aviation, Security, System, Systems, Computing, Rugged, Aircraft, Falcon, III, manpack, radio, information Harris Corporation to supply Falcon Tactical Communication Sytems to the Jordan Armed Forces - Military & Aerospace Electronics

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Harris Corporation to supply Falcon Tactical Communication Sytems to the Jordan Armed Forces

February 9, 2012

By Skyler Frink
Assistant Editor

ROCHESTER, NY, February 9, 2012. Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received a $26.4 million order from the Kingdom of Jordan for Falcon III and Falcon II radios. These tactical radio systems will provide modernized tactical communication capabilities to the country's military.

Harris will deliver the radios to serve as the communications core of a system for command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or C4ISR.

The company's Falcon family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications. Falcon III radios support the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) requirements, as well as network-centric operations worldwide.

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