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JANUARY 3, 16:42 EST
FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. -- Communications engineers at Raytheon Co. in Largo, Fla., are making plans to repair and overhaul the Army and Marine Corps AN/PSC-5 Spitfire lightweight, Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA), manpack, line-of-sight and tactical satellite communications radio.
Raytheon engineers are working under terms of a contract worth as much as $6 million awarded Dec. 27 from officials of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
Army officials are asking Raytheon to repair and overhaul the Spitfire's electric control panel, receiver-trans control, frequency-electric synthesizer, radio receiver, amplifier-converter, radio transmitter, security module, communication-modem-power regulator, and printed circuit board. Work is to be finished in late 2006.
Spitfire, which has been in the U.S. military inventory since 1998, is a primary command-and-control single-channel radio for Army and Marine Corps Marine air-ground task forces. The radio provides tactical communications down to the battalion level to transmit intelligence information.
The radio, which operates in the 30 to 512 MHz frequency range, can communicate with the Army's Single-Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) as well as military airborne Have Quick I and II radios. It also provides satellite communications/demand assigned multiple access capability.
For more information contact Raytheon Radios and Terminals business unit by phone at 219-429-5416, by fax at 219-429-4442, by e-mail at commsys@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com, by post at 1010 Production Road, Fort Wayne, Ind. 46808, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.raytheon.com.
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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