SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY : Army Gives Hughes $48.7-Million Order for 600 Mobile Radios
Compiled by Dean Takahashi Times staff writer
The Army has awarded a $48.7-million contract to Hughes Aircraft Ground Systems Group in Fullerton for the purchase of 600 mobile digital communications radios.
The Army exercised its option to make the purchase after Hughes demonstrated the radios in a field test. The radios are used to secretly transmit location data from troops to command units, Hughes spokesman Dan Reeder said.
They are to be delivered in 1993.
The contract is in addition to a $107-million production contract that Hughes received earlier this year for an initial batch of 600 radios.
The Ground Systems Group employs about 10,000 people in Orange County and is a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft Co. in El Segundo.
