Rockwell Collins announces plans to offer nationwide disaster communications system via HF radio

By Donny Jackson | Urgent Communications 

Rockwell Collins announces plans for ARINC UrgentLink, a nationwide high-frequency (HF) radio network that is designed to provide communications between public-safety and critical-infrastructure entities when local terrestrial networks have been destroyed by a man-made or natural disaster.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rockwell Collins yesterday announced plans for ARINC UrgentLink, a nationwide high-frequency (HF) radio network that is designed to provide communications between ……

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