[Satellite Today 11-16-09] Com Dev USA LLC has been awarded a contract to provide passive microwave equipment for an unnamed U.S. government space program, the company announced Nov. 11.

            The contract, valued at more than $7 million, covers work on the fourth spacecraft in a multiple-satellite constellation and follows a contract announced in October for the third spacecraft in the same program.

            Design and production work will be performed at Com Dev USA’s manufacturing facility in El Segundo, Calif., with delivery scheduled for the middle of fiscal 2011.