As I posted in another thread on this subject, I think Harris will absorb what's left of the GE legacy entirely and eventually replace all of it with Harris-designed and branded equipment. Harris has a genuinely vast pool of RF engineering and digital design talent that utterly dwarfs practically any other company you can name, in raw talent and experience. Our most sophisticated digital P25 radios are toys compared to the sort of stuff Harris delivers to the military every day.
They'll take a good look at the current radio designs they've just bought ownership of and say "What kind of BS design is this???", and replace those products with something that's engineered to the hilt,
reliable as sunrises, and so easy to use that even Army recruits who barely passed the ASVAB
should be able to operate them with a little practice.
I expect the GE legacy as we know it to disappear in a few years, with Harris only offering support
for the GE-to-Tyco legacy systems (EDACS, ESK, and ProVoice, to name three) as long as they
need to in order to satisfy contractual stipulations and keep their poorest customers happy for a while,
but after that, they'll move on to better things and give their customers little choice but to upgrade to P25, but all in good time.
Elroy
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