Cobham Awarded Multi-Year Contracts

3 November 2011

Cobham Awarded Multi-Year Contracts in Excess of US $72 Million For Specialised Military Antennas

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California- Cobham has been awarded two contracts totaling more than US $72 million during the next six years through its newly-acquired Trivec-Avant business, which has become part of the Antenna Systems Strategic Business Unit.

The US Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has issued a $60.7 million contract to add options and contract extensions for the purchase of commercial off the shelf (COTS), small ship variant, ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communication antenna systems and mobile user objective systems, with associated spares and sub-assemblies.

A six year purchase agreement was also recently signed with Thales Communications, Inc., to supply a variety of SATCOM antennas in support of Thales' Integrated Waveform rollout for their AN/PRC-148 Joint Tactical Radio System Enhanced Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radio (AN/PRC-148 JEM). The agreement could result in revenue of up to $2 million per year.

About Cobham

Cobham specialises in meeting the insatiable demand for data, connectivity and bandwidth in defence, security and commercial environments. Offering a technically diverse and innovative range of technologies and services, the Group protects lives and livelihoods, responding to customer needs with agility that differentiates it. The most important thing we build is trust. Employing more than 11,000 people on five continents, the Group has customers and partners in over 100 countries, with annual revenue of some £1.9bn / US$3 billion.

Cobham Antenna Systems

For more than 60 years, Cobham Antenna Systems has been a world leader in the design and manufacture of communication systems and antennas. Cobham's innovative communication, navigation, jamming, electronic warfare, telemetry and radar antennas serve all major commercial aviation manufacturers and operators, major defence contractors, emergency response organisations and law enforcement agencies. Cobham's satellite communications systems connect military and commercial aircraft, vessels, vehicles and mobile teams with the world, through high-speed data, voice and video. Cobham Antenna Systems also produces high performance composite products for the aerospace industry, including radomes and components for military aircraft, ships and vehicles.

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