Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Awarded $2.4 Million Contract for High-Power Solid-State Amplifiers
June 1, 2015 | By Business Wire News
MELVILLE, N.Y.
June 1, 2015–Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced today that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc., received orders totaling $2.4 million to supply X-band solid-state, high-power amplifiers. These amplifiers will be used in small, transportable, military tactical SATCOM terminals that support broadband communications over the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
“Military customers come to Comtech Xicom Technology when they need sophisticated, high-power amplifiers. The Comtech Xicom WGS product has proven to be robust and reliable,” said Dr. Stanton Sloane, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., a world leader in high-power amplifiers, manufactures a wide variety of tube-based and solid-state power amplifiers for military and commercial satellite uplink applications. The product range encompasses power levels from 8 W to 3 kW, with frequency coverage in sub-bands within the 2 GHz to 45 GHz spectrum. Amplifiers are available for fixed and ground-based, ship-board, and airborne mobile applications. Please visit www.xicomtech.com for more information.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. designs, develops, produces and markets innovative products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions. The Company’s 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, RF microwave amplifiers and mobile data communications. The Company sells products to a diverse customer base in the global commercial and government communications markets. The Company believes it is a leader in most of 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.
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