Finnish tactical radios to receive $3.1M upgrade

From left, troops of the Finnish, Norwegian, U.S, and British army stand in formation during the Saber Strike 2015 closing ceremony, June 18. Saber Strike facilitates cooperation amongst the U.S., Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to improve joint operational capability in a range of missions as well as preparing the participating nations and units to support multinational contingency operations. There are more than 6,000 participants from 14 different nations.(Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brooks Fletcher, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Finnish firm Bittium has been awarded a contract to upgrade tactical radios to the Finnish military.

Under the 2.8 million Euro (US$3.1 million) contract with the Finnish Defense Forces, Bittium will provide a software upgrade for the company’s Tactical Wireless IP Network (TAC WIN) software defined radio system, which is used as the wireless broadband network in the Finnish military’s M18 C3 system, according to a Bittium news release.

“This supports the Finnish Army’s reformed combat doctrine, where mobility, leading the troops on the move and effective communications are playing a key role,” Bittium said. “The main objective for the development work of the new software package is to continue enhancing the performance, data transfer capacity and survivability of the software and the related radio platform. The development work is done based on the observations made during field testing and waveform research done by Bittium.”