Iridium has announced a new five-year commercial contract with L3Harris Technologies, under which Iridium will provide its Satellite Time and Location (STL) service to more than three dozen L3Harris-operated communications backwork nodes and a similar number of FAA facilities throughout the US.
“With Iridium STL, data center managers can could on dependable timing synchronization throughout their facilities,” explained Christina Riley, vice president and general manager, Commercial Resilient Time and Location, Iridium. “STL solutions offer cost-effective resiliency in critical infrastructure environments where GPS is unreliable or unavailable, so L3Harris and the FAA can benefit from uninterrupted, high-performance operations”.
L3Harris owns and operates a private nationwide network for the FAA. It provides voice, data and video communications for the National Airspace System operations and mission support functions.
Iridium and L3Harris to protect FAA infrastructure
