TeleCommunication Systems, a provider of mission-critical wireless communications, has been awarded $7.8 million in contracts to provide fixed satellite terminal sites and managed bandwidth services for the U.S. Government.
As per the plan, the network that is slated to be fully operational by the end of this year will provide voice, video and data services in remote areas that lack terrestrial communications services.
Officials said that TCS has previously built networks around the world to support government agencies in southwest Asia, Africa and in South America, as well as the largest private VSAT network in the Asia Pacific region for one of the two largest U.S. banking organizations.
"We are proud to provide highly critical communications services to our deployed men and women," said Michael Bristol, senior vice president of TCS' Government Solutions Group, in a statement.
Bristol claimed that TCS has a proven track record in providing the military and other government organizations with highly reliable managed satellite bandwidth services to ensure that they can safely accomplish their ongoing missions.
TCS' Government Solutions Group, which began with the company's founding in 1987 as a government systems integrator, is a major provider of fixed and deployable communications solutions for government customers and mobile operators requiring high reliability and security.
With its extensive R&D effort, TCS has developed a suite of products under the SwiftLink brand, designed for reliable, on-the-quick-halt and on-the-move secure communications for the DoD and other federal agencies.
In September,
TMCnet reported that TCS had received an additional $5.4 million of funding from the U.S. Army for satellite communications equipment and services.
With this agreement, TCS supports the Military Transition Teams (MiTTs) and provides secure transmission of mission-critical data. TCS VSAT terminals offer high-speed satellite services as well as easy integration in sizes ranging from 18 inches to 2.0 meters in diameter.
The offering also considerably reduces the amount of time required to secure network connectivity.
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Edited by Michelle Robart