6 January 2015 – Global defense contractor Elbit Systems (Haifa, Israel) announced this week that the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has awarded the company a total of US$171 million in contracts to supply and maintain advanced electro-optics and communications systems, including Command, Control, Computer, Communications and Intelligence (C4I) systems and communications systems. The contracts include US$54 million for electro-optics and US$117 million for C4I systems. Most of the contracts will stretch over six years.

The contracts specify that Elbit Systems will develop the next generation of Digital Army Project (DAP), a master program that computerizes all operations in the land forces and connects field and command echelons into a central data transfer network. Elbit Systems will also develop, upgrade and supply communications systems and wide-band radio systems, and will provide logistic support and maintenance for these systems.