{"id":62035,"date":"2019-07-18T22:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-receives-4-2-million-to-support-us-army-bft\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T22:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:55:50","slug":"comtech-receives-4-2-million-to-support-us-army-bft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-receives-4-2-million-to-support-us-army-bft\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Receives $4.2 Million to Support US Army BFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comtech Telecommunications<\/strong> revealed that during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded $4.2 million in rapid innovation funding from the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong> for an enhanced version of Comtech\u2019s next generation MT-2025 Blue Force Tracking (BFT) satellite terminal that will incorporate a dual-mode BFT satellite transceiver and new antenna nulling technology.<\/p>\n<p>Comtech\u2019s next generation MT-2025 transceiver, which is also known as the Blue Force Tracker-2 High Capacity (BFT-2-HC\u201d Satellite Transceiver, meets BFT-2 protocols, is fully backward compatible with the U.S. Army\u2019s Blue-Force Tracking-1 system (BFT-1).&nbsp;Comtech currently provides sustaining support for the U.S Army\u2019s BFT-1 system and previously shipped over 100,000 BFT-1 mobile satellite transceivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese awards demonstrate the Army\u2019s high confidence in Comtech\u2019s BFT technology and innovation capabilities that can be used on future BFT systems,\u201dsaid Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications. \u201cComtech remains committed to providing the U.S. Army and its soldiers with the most innovative technology, enabling them to successfully complete all their missions, regardless of electronic warfare environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded $4.2 million in rapid innovation funding from the U.S. Army for an enhanced version of Comtech\u2019s next generation MT-2025 Blue Force Tracking (BFT) satellite terminal that will incorporate a dual-mode BFT satellite transceiver and new antenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59957,"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-62035","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\/62035"}],"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=62035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}