{"id":86659,"date":"2010-07-14T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-wins-226-7-million-army-tracking-system-contract-increase\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:03:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:03:04","slug":"comtech-wins-226-7-million-army-tracking-system-contract-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-wins-226-7-million-army-tracking-system-contract-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Wins $226.7 Million Army Tracking System Contract Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-14-10] <strong>Comtech Mobile Datacom<\/strong> received a contract modification to its Movement Tracking System (MTS) program contract with the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong>, authorizing two six-month performance period extension options and a $226.7 million ceiling increase, the company announced July 13.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the second MTS contract ceiling increase Comtech has received since May, bringing the total contract ceiling to $899.1 million. Comtech has received $668.7 million in orders to date. The Army exercised its first six-month performance period option immediately, extending the ordering period out through Jan. 13, 2011, with deliveries and performance now authorized to continue into January 2012.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe are extremely pleased to have received this substantial MTS contract ceiling increase, which we believe clearly demonstrates the government\u2019s continued demand for our hardware and services as well as their continued confidence in Comtech\u2019s ability to support the U.S. Army\u2019s immediate and future operational needs,\u201d Comtech President and CFO Fred Kornberg said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Comtech is one of the suppliers eligible for the Army\u2019s multi-billion dollar Blue Force Tracking 2 contract vehicle, expected by the end of this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">U.S. Army Places Blue Force Tracking Order with  Comtech<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 9, 2010<br \/>\n[07-09-10] Comtech Mobile  Datacom Corp. received a $22.2 million order for mobile satellite data  communications transceivers under its $384 million Blue Force Tracking  (BFT) IDIQ program contract with the U.S. Army, the company\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech Receives $6.1 Million in U.S. Army CECOM, BFT  Orders<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 11, 2010<br \/>\n[06-10-10] Comtech Mobile  Datacom has received satellite bandwidth, equipment and engineering  support orders totaling $6.1 million under its $384 million indefinite  delivery\/indefinite quantity contract with the U.S. Army\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech s Third Quarter Growth Exceeds Expectations<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 7, 2010<br \/>\n[06-04-10] Comtech s 2010  third quarter financial results, released June 3, shattered market  expectations with revenues increasing 68 percent to $216 million over  the same period in 2009, beating consensus projections by 14\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-14-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom received a contract modification to its Movement Tracking System (MTS) program contract with the U.S. Army, authorizing two six-month performance period extension options and a $226.7 million ceiling increase, the company announced July 13. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the second MTS contract ceiling increase Comtech has received since May, bringing the total [&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-86659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659"}],"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=86659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}