Harris and Norway’s Jotron AS have teamed up to pursue an anticipated five-year, $200 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contract for next-generation radios that will support the agency's future air/ground communications needs. Harris has a long history of developing and integrating system solutions for the FAA. Jotron has a 40-year history of supplying aviation and maritime radios and communications systems around the world. The companies are competing for Phase 2 of the FAA's Next Generation Air-to-Ground Communications System (NEXCOM) initiative.  The FAA is seeking commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) radios for voice communications between FAA facilities and aircraft in the terminal and flight services environments. Harris and Jotron have worked together to optimize the design of the Jotron 7000 Series multi-mode digital radio to meet FAA specifications, and also to provide additional benefits with Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol (IP) transmission.