Rockwell Collins has been awarded a $31 million contract to provide instrumentation for Army, Navy and Air Force test ranges.
Rockwell Collins is the prime contractor for the new Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS), which is replacing the current Advanced Range Data System on test ranges, according to a company news release.
The Department of Defense contract calls for Rockwell Collins to deliver 180 ground and airborne subsystems to seven test ranges, provide initial spares, and offer production hardware for site activation at the Patuxent River, Eglin, Edwards and White Sands ranges.
CRIIS provides TSPI — or time, space, position information — additional platform test data, and employs a more robust, spectrally efficient data link including multiple, independent levels of security, Rockwell Collins said.
"The key technologies of multi-level security, high throughput datalink networking, and precision GPS-based positioning make the system ready for the F-35, so moving into production makes CRIIS real for test and training instrumentation users," said Mike Jones, Rockwell Collins' vice president for communication, navigation and electronic warfare. "It provides much needed technology to modernize our US military test ranges and extends air combat training to be more operationally realistic as well."
