Canadian space hardware subsystems provider Com Dev International has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $4 million to provide satellite equipment for an unnamed U.S. military customer, the company announced.
   Com Dev will provide switch and multiplexer equipment operating in multiple commercial and military satcom frequency bands. Work on the contract will be carried out at the Company’s facilities in Cambridge, Ontario, with delivery due by August 2013.
   “Our Cambridge production facility continues to be very busy due to recent momentum in orders in both the commercial and government space sectors,” Com Dev President of International Products Mike Williams said in a statement. “This contract highlights Com Dev’s unique range of capability to supply equipment for all standard frequency bands with high quality and low cost, based upon our experience on over 850 communications satellites in the commercial and government sectors.”