MELBOURNE, Fla., July 14 (UPI) -- Harris Corp. will upgrade the U.S. Navy's Tactical Airborne Moving Map Capability Digital Map System under follow-on contracts.
The awards announced by the company Tuesday are worth nearly $30 million and bring the total value of the TAMMAC program for Harris to more than $140 million since 1997, the company said.
"These follow-on contracts represent key milestones in this very successful, long-term program with the U.S. Navy and its international TAMMAC partners," said Pat Seamon, vice president, Avionics and Electronics Programs, Harris Government Communications Systems. "Harris has delivered more than 1,400 TAMMAC units to date and are moving into new phases of graphics technology for this critical situational awareness capability used in such a wide variety of tactical aircraft worldwide."
The TAMMAC DMC gives aircrews a graphical view of their position as well as the relative positions of targets, threats, terrain features, planned mission flight effectiveness and other critical information.
The new DVMC version provides a 1024x1280 high-resolution digital moving map image channel.
TAMMAC maps are used on the Navy's F/A-18C/D, F/A-18E/F and EA-18G; the U.S. Marine Corps' F/A-18A/C/D, AV-8B, AH-1Z, and UH-1Y. Danish, Italian, Canadian, Australian, Swiss, Finnish and Spanish aircraft also use the system.
