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Air Force awards contract to iGov to upgrade Humvees comms

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U.S. Marine Cpl. Craig Lewis, a communications chief with the 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, uses two stacked devices, (on the top) the joint terminal attack controller laser targeting device and (on the bottom) the PAS-25, a thermal optic to see at night, Jan. 13 at Idesuna-Jima range W-174, Okinawa, Japan. Marines effectively combine the devices’ capabilities to mark targets at night with a laser so pilots know where to attack. Lewis is from Gilbert, Ariz., and is with the 5th ANGLICO detachment assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Abbey Perria/Released)

The Air Force has awarded iGov Technologies with a $52 million contract to upgrade M1145 Humvees for joint terminal attack controllers (JTAC).

Under the contract, iGov will modify the Humvees to “provide Tactical Air Party users with embedded software and systems for critical voice, data, and video communications,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement. “The mobile communications system effort will allow joint terminal attack controllers to control close air support (CAS) aircraft from the safety of an armored vehicle while coordinating and conducting joint CAS missions.”

The work is scheduled to be completed by January 2021.

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Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.