Gatr Technologies won a U.S. Army contract for procurement of...

Gatr Technologies won a U.S. Army contract for procurement of Gatr’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS)-certified Inflatable Satellite Antennas and associated hardware, services and support. The antennas have a flexible parabolic dish mounted within an inflatable sphere, “reducing weight and packaged volume by as much as 80 percent and thereby improving the agility of deployed military and disaster response personnel,” Gatr said in a press release (http://bit.ly/1cBf5hi). The larger dish size enables more efficient use of satellite bandwidth capacity, it said.