L3Harris completes FleetLink communications trials aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer

By Hannah Miller (Defence Industry Europe)

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L3Harris completes FleetLink communications trials aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer

Photo: U.S. Navy.

L3Harris Technologies said it completed operational testing of its FleetLink communications system aboard an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. FleetLink is designed to replace older Navy communications systems and help ships and submarines exchange information securely.

The high-speed system combines L3Harris radios and waveforms and can quickly integrate data from several sources, the company said. It uses NSA-certified cryptography to protect information shared across Navy platforms.

“Interoperability is a foundational requirement for the Navy’s increasingly complex operations,” said Faisal Munir, president of Mission Critical Communications, Communications & Spectrum Dominance at L3Harris. “FleetLink demonstrates exactly how the equipment will perform under real-world conditions to ensure combat readiness and provide commanders with seamless surface and undersea communications.”

L3Harris developed FleetLink in 2023 under the Navy’s Scalable, Modular, Radio Cluster contract. The modular system comes in two four-channel versions, one high-frequency and one multiband, plus a multiband version for submarines.