Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS)

INVESTMENT COMPONENT

Modernization

Recapitalization

Maintenance

MISSION

Provides tactical radio capability to enable a wide variety of Army Aviation platforms to meet networking interoperability requirements.

DESCRIPTION

Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) is a family of software-defined networking radios designed to meet Army Aviation requirements for secure user voice, data and video communications.

The AMF JTRS program of record is being restructured around a family-of-radios approach to procure industry-developed tactical radios. The proposed acquisition strategy will authorize procurement of Non-Developmental Items (NDIs) to meet platform needs.

SYSTEM INTERDEPENDENCIES

None

PROGRAM STATUS

• 3QFY12: Received Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) direction to close out the AMF JTRS System Development and Demonstration (SDD) contract
• 4QFY12: Received USD(AT&L) direction to pursue an NDI acquisition approach to meet Army rotary wing aircraft requirements
• 4QFY12: Release NDI Request for Information (RFI)
• 4QFY12: AMF JTRS analysis on RFI

PROJECTED ACTIVITIES

• 1QFY15: Milestone C

ACQUISITION PHASE

Technology Development

Engineering & Manufacturing Development

Production & Deployment

Operations & Support

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES

None

CONTRACTORS*

Prime:

Lockheed Martin (San Diego, CA; Alexandria, VA)

Subcontractors:

BAE Systems (Wayne, NJ)

Northrop Grumman (San Diego, CA)

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)

Raytheon (Ft. Wayne, IN)

* Contractors listed above are through 3QFY12.