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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Receives Orders
Totaling $24.9 Million to Support Existing BFT Satellite
Channels and Other Support Services
MELVILLE, N.Y., Sep 8, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX
News Network) -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL)
announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary,
Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders
totaling $24.9 million under its existing $384.0 million
BFT contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics
Command.
The orders are in support of the Force XXI Battle
Command Brigade and Below -- Blue Force Tracking (FBCB2-BFT)
program, a U.S. Army battle command real-time situational
awareness and control system and ensures Comtech's
continued support of all existing deployed BFT satellite
channels for a six-month period ending in March 2011,
as well as providing test channel services and supporting
the command's BRAC related move from Ft. Monmouth,
NJ to its new headquarters at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds military base located in Maryland.
Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., said, "We
are pleased to receive these orders for our continued
support of ongoing U.S. Army operational needs. These
orders demonstrate the continuing importance of our
BFT-1 system to soldiers in theater, the demand for
which we believe will continue for a number of years."
Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, a Germantown,
Maryland-based company, is engaged in the provision
of satellite-based packet data communication systems
and location and messaging services through the use
of advanced communication and network technology. To
learn more about Comtech Mobile Datacom, please visit
the company's website at www.comtechmobile.com.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. designs, develops,
produces and markets innovative products, systems and
services for advanced communications solutions. The
Company believes many of its solutions play a vital
role in providing or enhancing communication capabilities
when terrestrial communications infrastructure is unavailable,
inefficient or too expensive. The Company conducts
business through three complementary segments: telecommunications
transmission, mobile data communications and RF microwave
amplifiers. The Company sells products to a diverse
customer base in the global commercial and government
communications markets. The Company believes it is
a market leader in the market segments that it serves.
Certain information in this press release contains
statements that are forward-looking in nature and involve
certain significant risks and uncertainties. Actual
results could differ materially from such forward-looking
information. The Company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings identify many such risks and uncertainties.
Any forward-looking information in this press release
is qualified in its entirety by the risks and uncertainties
described in such Securities and Exchange Commission
filings.
PCMTL
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SOURCE: Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
CONTACT: Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Michael D. Porcelain, Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Jerome Kapelus, Senior Vice President,
Strategy and Business Development
(631) 962-7000
Info@comtechtel.com
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