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DRS awarded $9.3M datalink contract

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Petty Officer 2nd Class Kindred Heard, from Loachapoka, Ala., communicates with the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup on a Link 11 data terminal, coordinating a tactical data picture for the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group in the display and tracking module of the combat direction center aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations.

DRS Advanced ISR has been awarded a $9.3 million Navy contract for data terminals.

Under the five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, DRS will provide “minor development, production, integration, testing, support and sustainment of a Link 11 Data Terminal and Link 22 Signal Processing Controller solution for the command and control processor family of systems,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

“The Link 11 and Link 22 DTS [Data Terminal Set] shall be integrated with data link systems, communication systems, satellite communications systems, human-machine interface systems and cryptographic systems,” the DoD said.

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