COM DEV USA, LLC, [TSX: CDV], today announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US$7 million to supply passive microwave equipment for a U.S. Government space program. The current contract covers work on the third spacecraft in a multiple-satellite constellation.  It follows previous contracts on the first two satellites awarded to COM DEV USA through the Passive Microwave Devices product line it acquired in 2008.  COM DEV USA, LLC is a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd.

Passive microwave equipment products include:

• High and low power waveguide & coaxial devices from UHF to V-Band
• Isolators
• Power dividers
• High and low power loads
• Variable attenuators
• High and low power test couplers
• Phase shifters
• High and low power waveguide-to-coax adapters

“We are excited to continue working on this program, which is one of several major, ongoing US Government programs that constitute part of the deep heritage of our company,” said Dan White, President of COM DEV USA.  “We believe each of these programs represents a very solid opportunity for us to win follow-on work at such time as additional satellites are ordered.”

In addition to the work being undertaken at its California subsidiary, COM DEV’s Cambridge, Ontario facility is supplying other passive microwave equipment for a separate payload on the same satellite.