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LAAD 2011 Defence & Security News - SELEX Communications |
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Thursday,
April 14, 2011, 12:56 AM |
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Communications sign a contract for the upgrade of tactical
communications SISTAC system. |
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SELEX
Communications, a Finmeccanica company, and the Brazilian
Army signed a contract for first phase of the upgrade
of SISTAC, the tactical communication system in operation
since 1998, supplied at that time by Marconi Communications
(today SELEX Communications). The upgrade will be completed
by this year.
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SISTAC
has been used in the 1st Communications Battalion of Santo
Angelo within the state of Rio Grande do Sul, supporting
the 3rd Division, and it's the first system of this kind
that has been acquired by Brazil. It's a digital integrated
multi-service communications network based on a shelter
able to supply voice and data services, both encrypted and
non-encrypted, and to interface with public telephone network
and single-channel radio systems. |
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“After
more than 10 years of activity, this system demonstrated
its high level of efficacy and reliability”, said
 Brigade
General Antonino dos Santos Guerra Neto, Commander of
Communications and Electronic Warfare of the Army of Brazil.
“The need of upgrading some SISTAC components is
due to the necessity of increasing service band and operational
capacities, in order to cope with the complexity of modern
operational scenarios in which Brazilian Armed Forces
are involved”. SELEX Communications has been operating
within the Brazilian market since the end of the ‘90s,
through its branch SELEX Communications do Brasil. It
provides the Army with tactical area communications systems
and equipments and provides Army and Navy Special Forces
with solutions for short-range communications based on
its Personal Role Radio. Moreover, the subsidiary Sirio
Panel cooperates with Embraer within the main avionic
programs for military and civil aircraft, supplying cockpit
control panels and lighting systems.
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With
a wide range of professional communications solutions (TETRA,
DMR, GSMR, Wimax etc. ), the Finmeccanica company is also
active in Brazil in several professional civil areas, such
as Law Enforcement (Police Forces, Military Police, etc),
transportations (metro, bus, trains) and private company
(petrol, electricity, utilities).
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