{"id":67756,"date":"2017-07-12T01:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/disa-awards-comtech-a-14-5-million-contract-modification\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:31:42","slug":"disa-awards-comtech-a-14-5-million-contract-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/disa-awards-comtech-a-14-5-million-contract-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"DISA Awards Comtech a $14.5 Million Contract Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comtech Telecommunications<\/strong> announced that during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, its command and control technologies group received a $14.5 million contract modification from the United States\u2019 <strong>Defense Information Systems Agency<\/strong> (DISA). The modification will result in the exercise of the fourth-year option under an existing contract to provide Ku-band satellite bandwidth and support services for the<strong> U.S. Marine Corps<\/strong>\u2018 Tactical Satellite Communications Network.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth option year covers the period from August 1, 2017, through July 31, 2018. The customer has now funded $73 million to date on this contract. Comtech is providing the Marine Corps with commercial satellite services to various terminals to extend the Marine Corps Enterprise Network for deployed users.<\/p>\n<p>This order was issued under the joint DISA\/U.S. <strong>General Services Administration<\/strong> (GSA) Future Commercial Satcom Acquisition program. DISA and GSA are managing this procurement through the $2.6 billion Custom Satcom Solutions (CS2) contract vehicle, of which Comtech is one of eight prime contract awardees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, its command and control technologies group received a $14.5 million contract modification from the United States\u2019 Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The modification will result in the exercise of the fourth-year option under an existing contract to provide Ku-band satellite bandwidth and support services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67757,"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-67756","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\/67756"}],"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=67756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}