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Globecomm Receives Contract Extension from NATO Valued at $8.5 Million for GPS-Based Force Tracking System

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Globecomm Receives Contract Extension from NATO Valued at $8.5 Million for GPS-Based Force Tracking System

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a leading global provider of communications solutions and services, announced today that the Company has received a contract extension from NATO valued at $8.5 million to extend communication services and onsite support for the Company’s previously deployed GPS-Based Force tracking System (FTS).

“Globecomm is proud to support the needs of NATO. This contract continues to demonstrate our sustained ability to provide high quality communication services.”

Globecomm previously announced approximately $44 million in contracts from NATO for this project to design and install a GPS FTS, bringing the combined contract value to approximately $52.5 million. The FTS provides NATO with high levels of tracking data and messaging traffic. It enables NATO to identify where its personnel are located at all times, identify other multi-national forces and have the ability to do so in routine and operational situations. This is critical in assisting with the identification of friendly forces and helps prevent fratricide or “blue-on-blue” incidents.

Paul Knudsen, Vice President of Globecomm’s Eastern Atlantic Team, said: “Globecomm is proud to support the needs of NATO. This contract continues to demonstrate our sustained ability to provide high quality communication services.”

About Globecomm Systems

Globecomm Systems Inc., or Globecomm, is a leading global provider of satellite-based managed network solutions. Employing our expertise in emerging communication technologies we are able to offer a comprehensive suite of system integration, system products, and network services enabling a complete end-to-end solution for our customers. We believe our integrated approach of in-house design and engineering expertise combined with a world-class global network and our 24 by 7 network operating centers provides us a unique competitive advantage. We are now taking this value proposition to selective vertical markets, including government, wireless, media, enterprise, and maritime. As a network solution provider we leverage our global network to provide customers managed access services to the United States Internet backbone, video content, the public switched telephone network or their corporate headquarters, or government offices. We currently have customers for which we are providing such services in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Based in Hauppauge, New York, Globecomm Systems also maintains offices in Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

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