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WINCHESTER — Florida-based L3Harris Technologies Inc. is suing the Frederick County Board of Supervisors, the county government and county Finance Director Cheryl Shiffler over the board’s decision to award Texas-based EF Johnson a contract to replace the county’s public safety radio system.
L3Harris filed a complaint and request for a temporary injunction in Frederick County Circuit Court on June 14. The company wants the court to cancel the notice of intent to award the contract to EF Johnson and instead award it to L3Harris.
More than two years ago, Pennsylvania-based Mission Critical Partners assessed the county’s aging public safety radio system and identified numerous problems, such as limited capacity, no frequencies transmitted countywide and a limited number of operational channels if primary dispatch channels are overloaded. Some parts of the system were installed more than 20 years ago…
