While creating a report on the top 5 companies selling military batteries to DoD for last week, we found something interesting. The top manufacturer we came up with didn’t appear to be a dedicated battery manufacturer, it was Harris Corporation.
A quick review on our data pertaining to DoD contracts we saw one single delivery order awarded to Harris Corporation, stock ticker HRS. The order was for 2,415 rechargeable batteries totaling $831,363.75 on Thursday August 2nd 2018. The order was for a lithium ion battery part number 12041-2400-02 which is used on the Harris radio AN/PRC-152. This handheld radio is one of types of two way radios used by DoD.
Since our initial thought was we would find only battery manufacturers or battery distributors selling to DoD, we investigated a little further. We found an old SEC press release that stated that Ultralife Batteries, now known as Ultralife Corp under the stock ticker ULBI was awarded a contract by Harris to develop a high-capacity rechargeable lithium ion battery pack for use with the Harris Falcon(R) II multiband handheld radio and since the AN/PRC-152 radios series use the name Falcon it’s a possibility and more research would need to be done to see who is actually manufacturing the batteries.
If you are a battery manufacturer or distributor of batteries you are probably well aware of who might be making the batteries for Harris Corporation, or it may very well be Harris.
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