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TeleCommunication Systems Gets Additional $11.7 Million for SNAP

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Monday, October 12th, 2009

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TeleCommunication Systems [TSYS] recently announced that it received an additional $11.7 million in funding from the Army to provide additional Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems to the United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). This award is part of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM LCMC) order that was announced in August 2008. This increment of SNAP funding is for TCS' highly reliable…

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