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L3Harris Secures $300M Army Order for HMS Radios

The U.S. Army has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $300 million purchase order to produce thousands of handheld, manpack and small form fit, or HMS, radios.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer’s office said Thursday the military branch placed the order under a potential 10-year, $12.7 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to L3Harris, then Harris, and two other vendors in 2016.

The company’s workforce in Rochester, New York, will produce the HMS devices for the Army.

“This new contract will support good-paying jobs here in Rochester, support our troops and those of US allies and partners, and give a boost to the entire Finger Lakes economy,” the New York lawmaker stated.

Sam Mehta, president of L3Harris Communication Systems, said the company appreciates the senator’s continued support of the state’s high-technology workforce and its delivery of critical platforms to support U.S. warfighters.

“Our Falcon IV Family of Radios, which are part of the Army’s HMS program, deliver highly resilient capabilities that enable communications-on-the-move operations that are vital in defending our national interests against adversarial nations,” Mehta noted.

Previous Army Purchase Orders

In 2023, L3Harris secured a $196 million order from the Army to manufacture 4,343 units of HMS radios.

Two years before that award, the service branch tapped the company to produce more than 4,000 leader and manpack radios through a $345 million order awarded under the IDIQ contract.

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