MELVILLE, N.Y., April 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is continuing Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation's sustainment services for its Blue Force Tracking situational awareness and control system.
The continuation of services award is the exercise of the first option year of an earlier three-year BFT-1 contract and has initial funding of $19.8 million -- $10.0 million for the Army to continue to license BFT intellectual property from the company. The remainder of the funding is for engineering services and satellite network operations.