Oct. 14, 2013
The U.S. Army will
soon be using satellite and terrestrial
communications capabilities delivered in part by
Lockheed Martin to support battlefield
operations around the globe.
Lockheed Martin was
awarded an
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ)
contract to supply communications and
transmissions systems to the U.S. Army's Project
Manager of Defense Communications and Army
Transmissions Systems (PM DCATS). Under
this contract with a ceiling of
$4.1 billion,
Lockheed Martin will compete for task orders to
provide communications and transmission systems
to meet the Army's challenge of affordably
adapting to changing technology while
significantly reducing energy usage. All task
orders must be initiated within the contract's
five-year period of performance.
"Lockheed Martin is
honored to work with the Army to provide
enhanced situational awareness and network
connectivity to the Warfighter – regardless of
location," said
Robert Smith,
vice president of Space & Cyber for Lockheed
Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions.
"In assessing the customer's challenges with our
own capabilities in communications technology,
Lockheed Martin can provide value-added
communications and transmission solutions to
deliver voice, video and data services around
the globe."
With extensive
knowledge of the communications arena, Lockheed
Martin has long developed solutions that
leverage sophisticated satellite, wireless and
tactical radio technology to provide soldiers
with enhanced situational awareness and assured
network connectivity. Working with customers
domestically and internationally, Lockheed
Martin has regularly demonstrated capabilities
that, both through the network and the voice and
data services layer, support full spectrum
operations anywhere, anytime on the
battlefield.
Lockheed Martin is
partnering with a group of subcontractors and
small businesses including Globecomm, Inmarsat
Government-US and Hughes Network Systems, who
each provide specific communications
infrastructure capabilities critical to the PM
DCATS mission.
