Army taps Lockheed for second phase of long-range EW, surveillance program
Lockheed will build the prototype TLS-EAB system at its facility in Syracuse, NY, “in the coming months,” and the Army hopes to field the system by fiscal 2025.
Lockheed will build the prototype TLS-EAB system at its facility in Syracuse, NY, “in the coming months,” and the Army hopes to field the system by fiscal 2025.
"The Abrams doesn't do very well without ammunition [and the] Bradley does not do very well without fuel. So how does a fueler meet up with a Bradley in a contested environment if it doesn't have GPS [and] it can't calculate a route?” said Aaron Mebust, the vice president and director of GPS Source at General Dynamics.
Under the $324.5 million contract, the team will develop the "ground Operations and Integration (O&I) segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture."
The pilot is an important step toward designing the on the move networking capabilities Armored Brigades will need as the prepare for future, more mobile battlefields.
“NGLD-M will be the biggest material change in cryptographic key delivery in 20 years,” Michael Badger, product lead of COMSEC, said.