Tadiran Microwave Networks, which has made several structural changes designed to improve operating efficiencies, won a $4.2 million contract with the Maricopa County, Ariz., government to replace its analog network for public-safety communications.
TMN was formed by Tadiran Ltd.’s April 21 acquisition of Microwave Networks, formerly a division of California Microwave Inc. Less than a week after the acquisition, TMN consolidated its domestic and international business units and reinvested the savings from the restructuring-more than $1 million a year-into a revitalized research and development effort, said the company.
“Due to the consolidation of international and domestic business units, some management positions were eliminated,” said Mike Ingalls, vice president of international sales and worldwide marketing for Tadiran.
In addition to the savings created by the consolidation, Tadiran also has allocated 4 percent of total sales for R&D. These efforts focus on “developing a radio synchronous platform using … digital signal processing, as well as using microwave monolithic circuits while capitalizing on the low cost point-to-multipoint [radio-frequency] technology,” Ingalls said.
James R. Gordon was named president of TMN. Gordon previously was the president of Microwave Network Systems, a division of California Microwave before it was purchased-along with the international business unit-by Tadiran.
“By eliminating the redundancies of two sales units, we’ve become a much smarter, less top-heavy and customer-responsive organization,” said Gordon.
TMN also moved all its U.S. manufacturing capabilities to its 163,000-square-foot facility in Houston to improve its production efficiencies.
TMN also is in a stronger position to finance customers with the backing of a billion-dollar organization, Gordon said.
Tadiran plans to deliver its CM-11 digital microwave radio network to Arizona’s Maricopa County-the fastest-growing county in the United States. The government there wants to modernize it public-safely communications to increase capacity because of the phenomenal population growth and to provide improved data capabilities, said Tadiran.
The digital microwave radio network design in Maricopa County includes more than 20 site locations in both urban high-rise and remote mountain-top environments. Tadiran plans to provide complete sites, including buildings and towers at some locations, with one location being completely solar powered and accessible only by helicopter, the company said.
