{"id":68380,"date":"2017-04-21T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-awarded-42-7-million-contract-for-blue-force-tracking-program\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:01:23","slug":"comtech-awarded-42-7-million-contract-for-blue-force-tracking-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-awarded-42-7-million-contract-for-blue-force-tracking-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Awarded $42.7 Million Contract for Blue Force Tracking Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comtech Telecommunications<\/strong> announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Maryland-based subsidiary<strong>, Comtech Mobile Datacom<\/strong>, which is part of Comtech\u2019s government solutions segment, has received a five-year contract with a not-to-exceed value of $42.7 million to continue to provide sustainment support for the <strong>U.S. Army\u2019s<\/strong> Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Blue Force Tracking (BFT 1) program. BFT 1 is a battle command real-time situational awareness and control system.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new five-year BFT 1 sustainment contract, Comtech will perform engineering services, satellite network operations and program management through a hybrid Firm Fixed Price (FFP)\/Time &amp; Materials (T&amp;M) contract with cost reimbursement Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs). The base performance period begins April 15 and ends April 14, 2018, and the contract provides four 12-month option periods exercisable by the U.S. Army. The total estimated value of the base year is $8 million. The U.S. Army has placed an initial funded order of $3.5 million under this contract and Comtech expects to receive an additional order shortly to fully fund the base year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, which is part of Comtech\u2019s government solutions segment, has received a five-year contract with a not-to-exceed value of $42.7 million to continue to provide sustainment support for the U.S. Army\u2019s Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Blue Force [&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-68380","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\/68380"}],"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=68380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/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=68380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}