Communications & Power Industries Receives $1.7 Million Initial Contract for High-Power Amplifiers to Support a Multinational Organization

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) has received an approximately $1.7 million initial contract from Globecomm Systems Inc. to support a multinational defense organization. Under the contract, CPI will supply high-power, X-band communications amplifiers for new and upgraded satellite ground terminals. CPI's high-power amplifiers will be used to expand the capacity of existing terminals to operate in X-band frequencies, as well as in the design and development of new satellite ground terminals that also operate in X-band frequencies. CPI, a subsidiary of CPI International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPII - News), is a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications. Globecomm Systems (Nasdaq: GCOM - News) provides satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services to commercial and government-related customers around the world.
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Work on this contract will be performed at CPI's Satcom Division, and shipments are scheduled to begin in fiscal 2009. The initial program is expected to result in a multi-year program for CPI, with potential follow-on contracts of up to $3.5 million over the next three years.
"Supporting military communications programs is a growing business for CPI," said Andy Tafler, president of CPI's Satcom Division. "This latest contract to support a multinational defense organization demonstrates that our military communications products are in demand both within the U.S. and internationally."
About CPI International, Inc.
CPI International, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is the parent company of Communications & Power Industries, Inc., a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications. Communications & Power Industries, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes products used to generate, amplify, transmit and receive high-power/high-frequency microwave and radio frequency signals and/or provide power and control for various applications. End-use applications of these systems include the transmission of radar signals for navigation and location; transmission of deception signals for electronic countermeasures; transmission and amplification of voice, data and video signals for broadcasting, Internet and other types of commercial and military communications; providing power and control for medical diagnostic imaging; and generating microwave energy for radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer and for various industrial and scientific applications.
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