[Satellite TODAY 04-01-13] Canada’s Strategic Aerospace and Defense Initiative (SADI) has awarded a CA$13.3 million (CAD) repayable contribution to Norsat International. The company will use the contribution to enhance its strategic research and development program.

    Norsat’s R&D program is focused on communications technologies that provide militaries, governments, and commercial customers around the world with temporary, extended or permanent connectivity in locations or applications in which infrastructure is unreliable, damaged, insufficient or non-existent.

    Overall the contribution will allow the company to develop new communications technologies, expand existing lines of microwave products, satellite terminals, communications-on-the-Move (COTM) technologies, wireless communications technologies for Land Mobile Radio (LMR), and antennas and filters.