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Army

Comtech Wins $14.2M in New Government Satcom Contracts

Jeffrey Hill

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

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Comtech Wins $14.2M in New Government Satcom Contracts

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Comtech Telecommunications and its subsidiaries won two contracts to provide U.S. government and military satellite service, the company announced May 28. Comtech’s Mission-Critical Technologies group was awarded a $12.5 million order from U.S.-based integrator Strategic Communications to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite terminals to support secure communications for an unnamed U.S. government end-user. Comtech’s Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., also received a $1.7 million order for engineering services from Hughes Network Systems to support its ongoing Data Link Modernization (DLM)…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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