Option Period 4 Award Brings Total Funding to $35.5 Million

Comtech Mobile Datacom has won $6.2 million (€5.1 million) in additional funding for Option Period 4 of the US Army’s Blue Force Tracking (BFT) programme. The award brings total funding for the Base Period and Option Periods 1-4 to $35.5 million.

Comtech will continue to perform engineering services, satellite network operations and programme management for a one-year period that began on 15 April.

Fred Kornberg, Chairman and CEO of parent Comtech Telecommunications, commented “Our team remains committed to providing the US Army and its soldiers with critical BFT-1 sustainment support.”