{"id":87417,"date":"2010-03-01T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-army-raises-comtech-bft-1-contract-ceiling\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:18:04","slug":"u-s-army-raises-comtech-bft-1-contract-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-army-raises-comtech-bft-1-contract-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Raises Comtech BFT-1 Contract Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[03-01-10] <strong>Comtech Mobile Datacom<\/strong> has received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking (BFT-1) program contract from the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong>, the company announced Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The additional award brings Comtech\u2019s total BFT-1 contract ceiling to $243.5 million, expiring December 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said that the company also is trying to expand its Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) project with the U.S. military. \u201cOur BFT-2 solution provides the U.S. Army a unique ability to seamlessly transition from our current BFT-1 solution to our BFT-2 solution by offering a staged upgrade cycle that eliminates the risk of network disruption while minimizing the costs of operating two different networks during a challenging budget environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-01-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom has received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking (BFT-1) program contract from the U.S. Army, the company announced Feb. 25. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The additional award brings Comtech\u2019s total BFT-1 contract ceiling to $243.5 million, expiring December 2011. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said that 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-87417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417"}],"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=87417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}