KVH Industries of Middletown has won a second contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for its tactical navigation systems.
The Middletown-based business won the contract, valued at $1.4 million, after SOCOM placed its original order for TACNAV systems in Sept. 2002. The new order is the latest of a multi-year SOCOM program for the purchase of the systems worth more than $10 million over the life of the program.
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KVH’s TACNAV system was recently used aboard front-line combat vehicles used during Operation Iraqi Freedom. TACNAV systems are used aboard combat vehicles to figure out position and other tactical data. The system, according to KVH, provides information regardless of whether or not signals from global positioning systems (GPS) satellites are disrupted or jammed.
“We are extremely pleased that the U.S. Special Operations Command recognizes the value that TACNAV offers to American warfighters and that SOCOM has elected to continue fielding these critical systems throughout its vehicle fleet, including those of the U.S. Army Special Forces,” said Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH’s president and chief executive officer.
KVH’s early systems were used during the Gulf War and the latest version are used on U.S., Canadian and British vehicles serving in Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan.
