US Army, Prime Contractor Award Comtech $16.2M in Orders

Comtech’s MTTS Troposcatter. Photo: Comtech.

Comtech Telecommunications has announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2018, its command and control technologies group, part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, received orders totaling in excess of $16.2 million from two U.S. entities.

The company received a contract in excess of $2 million from a U.S. prime contractor for the supply of multiple XY satellite tracking antennas in support of a critical U.S. government program. Additionally, the command and control technologies group received orders totaling $14.2 million from the U.S. Army to provide satellite terminals and networking equipment.

The command and control technologies group is a provider of mission-critical, highly-mobile Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions. Its space and component technology division, now located in Cypress, California, specializes in supply of high reliability microelectronics, supplying Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical (EEE) parts for use in satellite and launch vehicle applications. It also provides services encompassing aspects of ground station life cycle including requirements definition and analysis, design, development and integration of turnkey systems from antenna to data processing, civil works and construction, station installation and verification, operations and maintenance, and decommissioning at end of life.