SPAWAR reserve component officer. Photo: Wikimedia.

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data, received a $1.8 million contract award extension for additional Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Interface Processor (ATIP) production terminals and engineering support services from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR).

The ATIP is a layer-2 Ethernet bridging device installed on ship, shore and submarine platforms in the Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT). According to Comtech, the ATIP program improves the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system’s performance through dynamic bandwidth management, support for higher External Data Representation (XDR) data rates, and increased throughput.

The contract extension also included exercising options under an engineering support services option to participate in integration and test activities to validate the U.S. Navy’s planned Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) interface between the ATIP and Automated Digital Network System (ADNS).