{"id":84522,"date":"2011-07-18T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-army-awards-mts-program-contract-to-comtech-mobile-datacom\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:23","slug":"u-s-army-awards-mts-program-contract-to-comtech-mobile-datacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-army-awards-mts-program-contract-to-comtech-mobile-datacom\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Awards MTS Program Contract to Comtech Mobile Datacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-18-11] <b>Comtech Mobile Datacom<\/b> has received an initial funded order totaling $4.6 million to support the <b>U.S. Army<\/b>\u2018s Movement Tracking System (MTS) program, the company announced July 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The order provides partial funding for the continued supply of satellite bandwidth, satellite network operations, engineering services, and program management support through December 2011.<br \/>\nThis order was placed under Comtech\u2019s existing $384.0 million Blue Force Tracking (BFT-1) to support the MTS program which has now been consolidated under its direction. Comtech previously supported the MTS program under a separate $899.1 million contract that expired on July 12.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a statement, Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said he anticipates that the value of this order will increase based on final negotiations with the U.S. Army. The company\u2019s current orders received to-date under the $384.0 million BFT-1 contract total $343.9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-18-11] Comtech Mobile Datacom has received an initial funded order totaling $4.6 million to support the U.S. Army\u2018s Movement Tracking System (MTS) program, the company announced July 15. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The order provides partial funding for the continued supply of satellite bandwidth, satellite network operations, engineering services, and program management support through December 2011. This order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-84522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84522"}],"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=84522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}