L3Harris announced that the NSA has approved its ROVER® 6Sc and Tactical Network ROVER 2c products for international sale. This approval allows foreign partners to upgrade their transceivers for interoperability with U.S. troops using NSA encryption. The products enhance real-time video and data capabilities, expanding international military collaboration.
L3HARRIS states “The U.S. National Security Agency has officially approved L3Harris’ ROVER® 6Sc Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance terminal and Tactical Network ROVER 2c handheld ISR terminal for use with the NICM100 security module.
For the first time ever, coalition partners with approval from the U.S. Department of State can purchase an upgrade for their transceivers through L3Harris to be interoperable with U.S. troops when they operate with NSA encryptions. The NSA crypto cores are available to eligible allies through Foreign Military Sales contracts.
This effort was only possible through close collaboration between L3Harris and the NSA on an expedited approval process, and these two products are the first test cases validated with this concept. We are now pursuing approvals through this process for the rest of our video datalink products including CMDL 2c as soon as their respective U.S. domestic variants complete certification.
- Byron Anderson, Director, Product Line Management, L3Harris
ROVER® 6Sc Transceiver
Designed for air, surface and maritime use, The L3Harris ROVER line of products provides real-time, full-motion video (FMV) and other network data for situational awareness, targeting, battle damage assessment, surveillance, relay, convoy overwatch operations and other situations where eyes-on-target are required. Embedded frequency diversity provides link redundancy, robust reception and resiliency to platform shadowing, multi-path interference, line-of-sight blockages and RF interference. With an unmatched waveform set, ROVER 6S is interoperable with virtually all large airframes, UAVs and targeting pods in theater today.
Until now, international customers were able to purchase exportable “i” variants of the ROVER line, which are not capable of interoperability with systems operating on NSA high-assurance channels. The approval of the “c” variants opens an array of protected coalition interoperability between U.S. troops and troops from more than 50 applicable nations.”
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