Slovak Ministry of Defence picks BAE

WAYNE, N.J: BAE Systems has secured a production contract with the Slovak Ministry of Defence for a newly designed mobile military communications system (known as MOKYS).

Under the €57 million ($62 million) contract, the company will also upgrade prototypes it first supplied in 2007 to be interoperable with the new equipment. Slovak companies including Corinex Group, a.s., and Vývoj Martin, a.s., have been chosen as major subcontractors to deliver high value systems and products.

BAE Systems has also signed an agreement with the Slovak Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Economy to provide an industrial offset package in Slovakia equal to 100 per cent of the MOKYS program value.

“This communications technology means the Slovak Armed Forces can continue to operate their NATO missions. It also delivers significant benefit to the Slovak economy via a progressive offset program, which has already delivered more than €80M worth of value to Slovak industry,” said Dean McCumiskey, BAE Systems’ managing director - West.

The MOKYS system supports secure transfer of information in the form of voice, data and images at both the operational and tactical levels of command. MOKYS is designed to be modular, highly mobile, and independent of changes in configuration of forces and has been successfully deployed by the Slovakian military on the NATO Communications Interoperability Exercise ‘Combined Endeavour’ during 2008 and 2009, adds a release.