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Boeing Defence Australia and Lockheed Martin Australia have signed a contract for the delivery of communication elements as part of the AIR 6500 Joint Air Battle Management System.
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Under the contract, Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) will deliver hardware and software for voice and data services for the Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) command and control system.
The technology will be drawn from capabilities developed for Boeing’s Currawong Battlespace Communications System, currently in service with the Australian Defence Force.
According to a release from the BDA, the company’s distributed network system is already in-service with the Australian Defence Force, including several transmission options such as Wideband Global Satellite to fibre to public networks, as well as management and networking software.
BDA has already embedded a team within Lockheed Martin Australia to support preliminary works on this critical program.
“This subcontract further cements our position as an industry-leading developer of deployable communications systems and demonstrates the value that defence industry partnerships bring to solving the ADF’s complex problems,” Murray Brabrook, BDA joint systems director, said.
“Working collaboratively across industry ensures we achieve what matters most – connecting and protecting the warfighter and doing this more quickly than one organisation could do in isolation.”
Kendall Kuczma, international business development director at Lockheed Martin Australia and New Zealand, added that the partnership will deliver next-generation communications technology into AIR 6500 to support Australian interests.
“We are delighted to join forces with BDA to integrate cutting-edge communication technologies into AIR 6500,” Kuczma said.
“I commend BDA’s engineers who, from day one, hit the ground running on AIR 6500. The team has embraced the agile architecture of AIR 6500 by leveraging the backbone of the Currawong Battlespace Communications technology and advancing it to provide an efficient and accelerated path to capability for the ADF.
“As we progress, Lockheed Martin Australia is committed to leveraging the full might of Australian industry to build a transformational capability, underpinned by best-of-breed sovereign technologies, that can be trusted to defend Australia and its national interests now and in the future.”
