{"id":50150,"date":"2024-11-15T22:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-wins-50m-us-navy-modem-contract\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:45:29","slug":"comtech-wins-50m-us-navy-modem-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-wins-50m-us-navy-modem-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Wins $50M US Navy Modem Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>U.S. Navy <\/b>awarded <b>Comtech Telecommunications<\/b> a contract valued at more than $50 million for SLM-5650B satellite communications modems, the company announced Nov. 14.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Ratigan, president and CEO of Comtech, said this award is a new contracting vehicle to \u201csignificantly expand\u201d the number of Comtech satcom modems delivered over the next four years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contract awarded by the U.S. Navy Information Warfare Systems Command includes modems, upgrade kits, firmware options, and technical support. The contract has a four-year period of performance. Comtech has received approximately $2 million in funded orders to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SLM-5650B modem is U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command\/Army Forces Strategic Command (USARSTRAT) Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certified. Common applications include communications at-the-pause, communications on-the-move, rugged environments, and secure networks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs data rate demands in the U.S. Navy Fleet increase, and satellite technologies evolve to provide enhanced capabilities, Comtech\u2019s U.S. sovereign SLM-5650B modems are uniquely designed to meet the needs of the Navy today, as well as the joint force operations of tomorrow,\u201d Ratigan commented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy awarded Comtech Telecommunications a contract valued at more than $50 million for SLM-5650B satellite communications modems, the company announced Nov. 14.&nbsp; John Ratigan, president and CEO of Comtech, said this award is a new contracting vehicle to \u201csignificantly expand\u201d the number of Comtech satcom modems delivered over the next four years.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}