The U.S. Army has awarded L3Harris Technologies full-rate Manpack and Leader radio production orders under the Handheld, Manpack & Small Form Fit (HMS) program totaling nearly $300 million.
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These orders continue the proliferation of communication solutions for U.S. soldiers and provide interoperability from the tactical edge to the aerial tier in all operational environments, regardless of adversarial electronic warfare attacks.
The modern cryptographic compliant L3Harris AN/PRC-158 and AN/PRC-163 radios can switch between Secure But Unclassified – Encrypted (SBU-E) and high-assurance levels of encryption, enabling interoperability with coalition partners. This capability meets the latest NSA encryption and decryption standards for Communications Security and Transmission Security.
This award follows similar production orders from 2023 totaling more than $247 million under the same IDIQs. The Army also selected L3Harris to deliver Mobile User Objective System-capable AN/PRC-158s for the service’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems and the CH-47 Chinook rotary-wing fleet as part of the Air-to-Ground Networking Radio program.
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