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Army Awards GATR $522 Million For Inflatable SATCOM Systems

Army Awards GATR $522 Million For Inflatable SATCOM Systems
Col. Greg Coile, PEO-C3T project manager, discussing the Transportable Tactical Command Communication system. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Army has awarded GATR Technologies a $522 million deal to supply its Inflatable Satellite Antenna (ISA) systems as part of its battlefield network upgrade effort. The Cubic [CUB]-owned GATR’s updated ISA is a bubble-like deployable SATCOM system that will be used for the Army’s Transportable Tactical Command Communication (T2C2) program to replace cumbersome, heavy metal antennas used for its tactical network.GATR received full-rate production approval in January and the company has now been officially tapped to deliver both the…

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