[January 04, 2012] Comtech receives multiple orders to support US Army's MTS and BFT-1 programs Tweet Jan 04, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received multiple orders totaling $16.6 million to support the US Army's Movement Tracking System, or MTS, and Blue-Force Tracking-1, or BFT-1, programs. These orders were placed under the auspices of the BFT program office and brought the total orders received to-date under Comtech's $384 million BFT-1 contract to $378.2 million, the company said. The first order for $12 million included the supply of MT-2012 mobile satellite transceivers to support the MTS program and MT-2011 mobile satellite transceivers to support the BFT-1 program. The second order was for the continued supply of satellite bandwidth, satellite network operations, engineering services and program management to support the MTS program for the period January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012, the company added. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., said: "We are pleased to receive these orders which provide for the uninterrupted delivery of MTS services to the US Army and which continues our long standing support of the MTS and BFT-1 programs. We also believe the receipt of additional hardware orders demonstrates the ongoing importance of the US Army's BFT-1 and MTS satellite tracking communication systems which currently support deployed US forces worldwide." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]