FCS Ground and Airborne Platform Communication Systems

BAE Systems has been selected by the Army LSI team of Boeing and SAIC to enter negotiations toward a contract to develop and integrate the joint interoperable Ground and Airborne Platform Communication Systems (GPCS and APCS), two critical elements of the Army’s FCS network-centric war fighting capabilities.

Under these efforts, BAE Systems will serve as the GPCS and APCS integrator to develop specifications and provide prototype communications packages that will support the various communications configurations of selected FCS ground and airborne platforms. 

BAE Systems will lead a team of world-class partners to select technologies and develop specifications to support key FCS communications performance characteristics such as survivability, interoperability and mobile secure communications, and apply them on manned and unmanned ground platforms, as well as on unmanned aerial platforms. 

BAE Systems will leverage its major complementary programs such as Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radios (GMR) and WIN-T to develop the FCS Networked Communications System with its objective goal of joint interoperability. The GPCS and APCS programs are essential to enabling FCS to achieve its network-centric war fighting capabilities.