By Nigel Pittaway
MELBOURNE, Australia — In a surprise move, the Australian government informed bidders during last week’s Land Warfare Conference here that the current phase of its ambitious Battlespace Comms project would be delayed for about a year.
Joint Project (JP) 2072 Phase 2B is the latest component of the Battlespace Communications – Land project, which has been referred to as the “digital backbone” of the network-enabled future Australian Defence Force (ADF). It will improve the ADF’s command and control services to headquarters, and is valued at between 500 million and 1 billion Australian dollars ($520.1 billion to $1.04 billion).
The four bidding teams are BAE Systems Australia and Thales Australia; Raytheon Australian and General Dynamics C4 Systems; Lockheed Martin Australia and Elbit Systems; and Boeing Defence Australia.
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