Two of the many companies visited by SatNews publisher Silvano Payne were International Datacasting (IDC) and Communications & Power Industries (CPI).

With the rush of the show, and a myriad number of appointments, the publisher learned the following from International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC), who has appointed David Little to the Board of Directors. The IDC Board now consists of Adam Adamou as Chairman, Fred Godard as President and CEO, Frank Ruffolo, Del Lippert and David Little. Little is a partner with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (“FMC”), one of Canada’s leading national business law firms. As the Co-Chair of FMC’s Tech Companies/Venture Capital Group, Mr. Little’s practice focuses on representing private and public technology companies and investment funds in financings, cross-border transactions, buy-outs and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Little has served as legal counsel on a significant number of transactions involving an aggregate of over $1 billion over the course of his seventeen year career. Mr. Little has served as IDC’s principal legal counsel over the last eleven years and has provided advice on all of IDC’s financing, acquisition, governance and general corporate matters during this period.


During his visit to CPI, Silvano discussed their latest contract to support U.S. Navy satellite terminals with broadband capabilities. This five year, IDIQ contract from Harris is in support of U.S. Navy's Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP). To date, CPI has received $3.8 million in orders to provide satellite communications amplifiers for the Force Level Variant (FLV, for large ships) and Unit Level Variant (ULV, for medium-sized ships) portions of the military communications program. Under the contract, CPI is providing C-, Ku- and Tri-band (capable of operating at C-, X- and Ku-band frequencies) outdoor amplifiers for Harris' shipboard satellite communications terminals for CBSP. Work is being performed at CPI's Satcom Division in Georgetown, Ontario and Microwave Power Products Division in Palo Alto, California.