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Wavestream Awarded Contract for Over $6 Million from US Department of Defense

Wavestream’s state-of-the-art GaN BUCs will be supplied as the first award of a five-year base-period of potentially over $10 million of deliveries to the US DoD

San Dimas, California, December 4, 2019 — Wavestream, a world leader in the design and manufacture of next generation high-power solid-state amplifiers, announced today receiving orders for over 6 million dollars from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for its state-of-the-art GaN BUCs,  to be supplied as the first award of a five-year base-period of potentially over $10M of deliveries to the US DoD.

“Wavestream has delivered thousands of SSPAs to the US Armed Forces for over a decade,” said Bob Huffman, Wavestream’s General Manager. “We take pride in continuing to provide the best solutions to support the US forces world-wide with field proven, highly reliable telecommunications solutions.”

About Wavestream
Wavestream is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of next generation satellite communications high power transceivers for In Flight Connectivity, Ground Mobility and Gateway markets. Since 2001, we provide system integrators with field-proven, high performance Ka, Ku and X band Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), Block Upconverters (BUCs), Block Down Converters and Transceivers. We design, manufacture and repair our products in-house and have delivered over 40,000 systems in the past 15 years. Wavestream products provide high quality and reliability under the harshest environmental conditions and we are currently certified to ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100D standards. For further details please visit www.wavestream.com