BK Technologies Receives $3.3 Million Purchase Order for BKR 9000 Radios from the Florida Forest Service

BK Technologies Corporation this week announced that it has received a $3.3 million purchase order from the Florida Forest Service for the Company’s BKR 9000 multiband portable radio.

BK Technologies Corporation this week announced that it has received a $3.3 million purchase order from the Florida Forest Service for the Company’s BKR 9000 multiband portable radio. The radios will be used by several different branches within the organization including wildland fire and land management for fighting active wildland fires and facilitating controlled burns, as well as in research to improve biodiversity and ecosystem health.

John Suzuki, CEO of BK Technologies, commented:

The Florida Forest Service has been a longterm BK customer. As part of their life cycle radio replacement program, the customer spent time field testing both the BKR 5000 and BKR 9000, ultimately choosing to standardize on the BKR 9000 for the radio’s multiband capabilities and superior interoperability with city and county trunked systems during forestry operations. Through our established government contract vehicle with the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), we’re pleased to supply a high quality, reliable communications technology to this organization, and are encouraged by this order and others like it that demonstrate the growing demand for the BKR 9000 among public safety agencies.

The mission of the Florida Forest Service is to protect and manage the forest resources of Florida, ensuring that they will be available for future generations. Their fire management operations are focused on reducing the threat of life and property, forests and other related at-risk wildland, while promoting natural resource management through the use of prescribed fire. The Florida Forest Service oversees the operations of 38 state forests and one ranch totaling over 1.1 million acres of land.