Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking ("BFT-1") program contract with the U.S. Army. The total contract ceiling for its current BFT contract is now $243.5 million and expires December 2011.

Since the BFT contract was previously near its ceiling limit, the ceiling increase enables Comtech to continue to provide uninterrupted satellite airtime capacity as well as communications equipment and network management services, and related support for FBCB2-BFT, a battle command real-time situational awareness command and control system. Comtech's BFT-2 solution has been tested and is ready for field deployment and specifically addresses the U.S. Army warfighters' challenging mobile environment. Comtech's BFT-2 solution integrates leading edge antenna, signal processing and waveform technologies while at the same time providing full backward compatibility with the more than 100,000 1G Comtech-designed BFT-1 satellite transceivers previously deployed.