Integral Systems [ISYS] has received a five-year, $10 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the Coast Guard to equip the service’s fleet of large cutters with high-speed satellite communications technology, including routers and modems. The routers and modems are being supplied by iDirect Government Technologies. Integral and Avtec Systems, Inc., will serve as lead integrators on the project. Under the award the Coast Guard will modernize its communications backbone for its fleet of as many as 76 large cutters, taking the service from a legacy commercial satellite infrastructure to a Ku-band system, which is more reliable, improves the per-second data transmission speed, increases bandwidth and is more cost effective.