Communication

More than 300 Bradley Fighting Vehicles are to be upgraded and provided to U.S. Army National Guard units by BAE Systems.

The $306 million award is a contract modification from the Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. The earlier award -- worth $340 million -- was for buying materials for the upgrade.

"Our Bradley Fighting Vehicle has served alongside Army soldiers, helping them to accomplish their missions for more than two decades," said Joe McCarthy, vice president and general manager of Combat Vehicles at BAE Systems.

L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its STRATIS division has been selected as one of three prime contractors for the Intelligence Support Services-Afghanistan (ISS-A) contract. Under this contract, L-3 has already been awarded two firm fixed-price task orders valued at $36 million to provide intelligence support to the United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A). These agreements, underway as of September 2010, have a one-year base period, plus two one-year option periods.

An $8 million order for beyond-line-of-sight tactical radios has been received by the Harris Corp. from an unidentified Middle Eastern country.

The radios to be supplied by Harris are the Falcon II RF-5800H, high-frequency manpack units which feature integrated data link protocols and embedded Global Positioning System.

"The RF-5800H delivers highly reliable and secure communications even in the most challenging mission environments, such as mountains and urban areas,'' said Brendan O'Connell, president of International Business, Harris RF Communications.

A system that transmits video in real time among vehicles at significant distances from each other has been ordered by the U.S. Army.

Lockheed Martin said the contract for its commercial GyroLink system for the Remote -- Vehicle Optics Sensor System program is worth $21.4 million and will be used in route clearance vehicles.

Installation of the system in the Army's vehicles begins immediately.

Integrated communications systems on U.S. military vehicles in theater are to be enhanced by Serco Inc., a technology, and management services company.

Under a $73 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award to support the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Program Office, Serco will upgrade the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar.