{"id":86835,"date":"2010-06-11T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-receives-6-1-million-in-u-s-army-cecom-bft-orders\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:23:40","slug":"comtech-receives-6-1-million-in-u-s-army-cecom-bft-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-receives-6-1-million-in-u-s-army-cecom-bft-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech Receives $6.1 Million in U.S. Army CECOM, BFT Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-10-10] <strong>Comtech Mobile Datacom<\/strong> has received satellite bandwidth, equipment and engineering support orders totaling $6.1 million under its $384 million indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity contract with the <strong>U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command<\/strong> (CECOM), the company announced June 10. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new orders support the U.S. Army\u2019s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below-Blue Force Tracking (FBCB2-BFT) program, a battle command real-time situational awareness and control system. Comtech will provide its AVX-06 aviation transceiver, MT-2011 ground mobile transceivers, satellite network bandwidth, engineering technical support and equipment leases.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite network bandwidth order support the FBCB2-BFT program\u2019s transition to new BFT software version 6.5 which, when fully deployed, will enable current BFT users to operate at higher data rates. Comtech said the new orders support an incremental six months of satellite network bandwidth. <br \/>\nThe new orders bring Comtech\u2019s total CECOM intake up to $240.5 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech\u2019s 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<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech Acquisition Looks Healthy in 2010 Second  Quarter<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 14, 2010<br \/>\n[05-14-10] CPI International,  the microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions provider set  to be acquired by Comtech, reported 2010 second quarter revenues of $88  million, CPI announced May 13.  <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech Acquires RF Microwave Manufacturer for $472.3  Million<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 11, 2010<br \/>\n[05-11-10] Comtech  Telecommunications has signed an agreement with CPI International to  acquire the microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions  provider for $372 million in cash and 4.4 million shares of Comtech  stock in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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 Communications Electronics Command (CECOM), the company announced June 10. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new orders support the U.S. Army\u2019s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below-Blue Force Tracking (FBCB2-BFT) [&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-86835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835"}],"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=86835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}