{"id":86690,"date":"2010-07-09T22:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-army-places-blue-force-tracking-order-with-comtech\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:57:49","slug":"u-s-army-places-blue-force-tracking-order-with-comtech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-army-places-blue-force-tracking-order-with-comtech\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Places Blue Force Tracking Order with Comtech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-09-10] <strong>Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp.<\/strong> 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 <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong>, the company announced July 8.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Comtech will supply its Model MT-2011 mobile satellite ground transceiver and its AVX-06 aviation transceiver to support the Army\u2019s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below\u2013Blue Force Tracking (FBCB2-BFT) program, a battle command real-time situational awareness and control system.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Comtech President and CEO Fred Kornberg said the order shows the Army\u2019s confidence in the company\u2019s technology as it awaits the Pentagon\u2019s decision on the Blue Force Tracking 2 contract, expected sometime this summer. \u201cWith the anticipated transition of BFT to the next-generation BFT-2 solution, we believe that our unique ability to seamlessly enable this transition provides important value to the BFT program by eliminating the risk of network disruption while minimizing the costs of operating two different networks during a challenging budget environment,\u201d Kornberg said in a statement,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new award increases Comtech\u2019s total order value against the BFT IDIQ contract to $262.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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 announced July 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Comtech will supply its Model MT-2011 mobile satellite ground transceiver and its AVX-06 aviation transceiver to support the [&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-86690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690"}],"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=86690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}