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 1.2-meter and 2.4-meter variants of its inflatable satellite terminals.
Col. Greg Coile, a program manager for the Army’s Program Executive Office – Command Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), told Defense Daily in March that T2CT can be folded into three bags and set up in just 20 minutes while retaining high-level communication capabilities (Defense Daily, March 20).
GATR is expected to complete work on the deal by September 2023.