Army Ups Its Purchase of Harris Corp. Radios

I reported on June 4 that the Army awarded Harris Corp. a $1.9 million contract off the GSA schedule to buy 162 vehicle wideband radios to support its next Network Integration Evaluation exercise in October at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

It turns out that contract award also covers the acquisition of another 270 radios to equip the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division slated for deployment to Afghanistan next year, along with 200 wideband networking radio upgrades to Harris AN/PRC-152 radios for a total value of $8.4 million, according to this limited source justification posted to the FedBizOpps website last Friday.

The Army’s systems integration shop said in February that it planned to run a buy for up to 5,000 of the wideband vehicle radios, and right now it looks like Harris may win that contract on a piecemeal basis.