The US Army has awarded incremental funding to a previous contract won by Comtech Telecommunications’ Mission-Critical Technologies group.
The $2.2m funding has been awarded as part of the $98.6m ceiling contract announced earlier. The group is part of the company’s government solutions segment.
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The previous contract covers field support services for the US Army’s military satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals across the globe.
Comtech has so far received funding of approximately $24.4m under the US Army contract.
Under the latest field support contract, the company will offer a range of engineering and technical skills for the army’s mission-critical ground SATCOM terminals.
The contract also includes support services such as security engineering, help desk, logisticians, network engineering, and RF and satellite system engineering.
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By GlobalDataThe SATCOM terminals feature ‘worldwide reach back capability’ and are designed to support communications both on inter and intra-theatre network.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp president and chief executive officer Fred Kornberg said: “Supporting the US warfighter is a privilege for Comtech and we are honoured that the Army has entrusted us with this mission.”
The company’s Mission-Critical Technologies group provides mission-critical, highly mobile command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and other advanced secure wireless communications.
Last week, the company received additional funding of $3m to deliver ongoing sustainment services for the AN/TSC-198A secret internet protocol router and non-classified internet protocol router access point, and baseband equipment.
It also won $6.7m in funding from the army to provide support services for the very small aperture terminals.
