{"id":59637,"date":"2020-05-28T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-wins-14-2m-in-new-government-satcom-contracts-2\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T23:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:03:20","slug":"comtech-wins-14-2m-in-new-government-satcom-contracts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-wins-14-2m-in-new-government-satcom-contracts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Wins $14.2M in New Government Satcom Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comtech Telecommunications<\/strong> and its subsidiaries won two contracts to provide U.S. government and military satellite service, the company announced May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Comtech\u2019s Mission-Critical Technologies group&nbsp; was awarded a $12.5 million order from U.S.-based integrator Strategic Communications to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite terminals to support secure communications for an unnamed U.S. government end-user.<\/p>\n<p>Comtech\u2019s Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, <strong>Comtech EF Data Corp<\/strong>., also received a $1.7 million order for engineering services from <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> to support its ongoing Data Link Modernization (DLM) contract and provide new satellite communications systems for the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong>\u2019s MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).<\/p>\n<p>Under the development and prototype phase of the sub-contract with Hughes, Comtech EF Data said it would provide advanced engineering services, including porting of waveforms to the prime contractor\u2019s airborne and ground-based satellite modems and support for stringent U.S. Army cyber security requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe [the DLM] award is tangible evidence that our ongoing investments in secure wireless technologies are paying off,\u201d Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said in a statement. \u201cWe are proud to be working with Hughes and the DoD to support the warfighters\u2019 needs with the highest performance, most robust, cost-effective and reliable solution available in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comtech Telecommunications and its subsidiaries won two contracts to provide U.S. government and military satellite service, the company announced May 28. Comtech\u2019s Mission-Critical Technologies group&nbsp; was awarded a $12.5 million order from U.S.-based integrator Strategic Communications to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite terminals to support secure communications for an unnamed U.S. government end-user. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59639,"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-59637","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\/59637"}],"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=59637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}