Comtech Telecommunications’ (News - Alert) Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, has been awarded multiple orders of $16.6 million to support the U.S. Army's Movement Tracking System and Blue-Force Tracking-1 programs.

Company officials said that these satellite optimization orders were placed under the auspices of the BFT program office.

The first order for $12.0 million included the supply of MT-2012 mobile satellite transceivers to support the MTS (News - Alert) program and MT-2011 mobile satellite transceivers to support the BFT-1 program.

The second order, pricing of which has not yet been finalized by the U.S. Army, was for the continued supply of satellite bandwidth, satellite network operations, engineering services and program management to support the MTS program from January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.

Comtech Mobile Datacom (News - Alert) Corporation 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.

In a release, Fred Kornberg (News - Alert), 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 U.S. 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 U.S. Army's BFT-1 and MTS satellite tracking communication systems which currently support deployed U.S. forces worldwide."

The other orders approximately for $0.6 million related to engineering services to develop an operational interface between the MTS network and a standard FBCB2 protocol currently being used by the BFT-1 system.