Harris Receives SCA-Certification for Falcon III AN/PRC-152(C)

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has announced that the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) of its Falcon“ III AN/PRC-152(C) has been reviewed and tested by the Joint Program Executive Office of the Joint Tactical Radio System Test and Evaluation Laboratory (JPEO JTEL) and certified with waivers by Dennis Bauman, the Joint Program Executive Officer of the Joint Technical Radio System (JPEO JTRS). All JTRS radios must use the SCA software operating environment as the basis to run the radio’s waveforms. With over 3000 AN/PRC-152(C) multiband handheld radios in service today and over 17,000 expected to be in service by summer 2007, the AN/PRC-152(C) is the first widely fielded tactical radio to receive SCA certification. “We are very happy to see Falcon III radio now SCA- and NSA-certified,” said Bauman. “I am committed to removing JTRS market entry barriers and creating a competitive environment within the JTRS family. Products like the reprogrammable, SCA-compliant Falcon III will permit faster and cheaper means to upgrade the radio capabilities and implement crypto modernization. Our goal is to provide our Joint Warfighters with a family of interoperable, secure, affordable software-defined radios. I welcome Harris into the JTRS family.”