Montreal -- Ultra Electronics Tactical Communication Systems Division (Ultra TCS) announces the award of contract modifications valued at more than US$30,000,000 through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, for the supply of its AN/GRC-245 HCLOS™ radio and TRC190 V1 and V3 kits for the U.S. Army’s WIN-T Program under contact no. DAAB07-98-C-F505.

“We are honoured to support the US’s Army drive to modernize its tactical communications systems” states Alan Barker, president of Ultra Electronics Tactical Communication Systems Division. “The AN/GRC-245A HCLOS™ radio is currently deployed with the armies of several countries and we are absolutely delighted at the positive experiences reported by the soldiers using this radio.”

The AN/GRC-245A HCLOS™ radio is a state-of-the-art Software Defined Radio (SDR) using the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) open framework. The HCLOS™ radio is currently shipping with 16Mb/s capacity but is softwareupgradeable to 34Mb/s full-duplex capacity. Ultra-TCS has already delivered thousands of HCLOS™ radio to North American and International customers, many of which are operating in the most demanding battlefield conditions. Many thousands more HCLOS™ radio are on order.