Federal Aviation Administration gives contract to General Dynamics for new aircraft radios

General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, received a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deliver radios that allow air traffic control personnel to communicate with commercial and military aircraft throughout the National Airspace System (NAS). The 10-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a potential value of $363 million if all options are exercised. General Dynamics received a $6 million initial award to qualify and certify the radios for operation in the NAS. Replacing outmoded air traffic control air-to-ground radios with radios using the latest in communications technology is a task included in FAA's Next Generation Air-Ground Communications (NEXCOM) Segment 2 program. Along with improved ground-to-air communications performance, the software-defined CM300/350 VHF and UHF air traffic control radios will provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities.