Army Kicks Off Manpack JTRS Buy

The Army last week kicked off the start of a procurement for full-rate production of two-channel Joint Tactical Radio System backpack radios, one of the key components of one of the service's top modernization priorities, its battlefield networks.

General Dynamics' C4 Systems won the initial production order -- 100 radios -- in July 2011 and the Army now wants to compete the production contract, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

I have a feeling that Harris Corp., which has developed its own family of radios that meet most of the JTRS specs, will bid on this one.