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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Awarded $5.5 Million Contract for Upgrades to U.S. Missile Defense System

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May 01, 2019 — Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) announced
today that during the third quarter of fiscal 2019, its Santa Clara,
California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., which is
part of Comtech’s Commercial Solutions segment, received a contract
valued at more than $5.5 million for high-power satellite communication
(“SATCOM”) amplifiers to relay data for the early detection of missile
launches.

“Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. has been developing higher power
millimeter-wave (“mmW”) TWTA technology for more than two decades and we
are a leader in the market for millimeter-wave TWTAs,” said Fred
Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech
Telecommunications Corp. “The customer required a higher power solution
as part of a system upgrade and expansion and came to Comtech Xicom
Technology, Inc. to get the product they needed.”

Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., a world leader in high-power amplifiers,
manufactures a wide variety of tube-based and solid-state power
amplifiers for military and commercial satellite uplink applications.
The product range encompasses power levels from 8 W to 3 kW, with
frequency coverage in sub-bands within the 2 GHz to 52 GHz spectrum.
Amplifiers are available for fixed and ground-based, ship-board and
airborne mobile applications. Please visit www.xicomtech.com
for more information.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. designs, develops, produces and markets
innovative products, systems and services for advanced communications
solutions. The Company sells products to a diverse customer base in the
global commercial and government communications markets.

Certain information in this press release contains statements that are
forward-looking in nature and involve certain significant risks and
uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such
forward-looking information. The Company’s Securities and Exchange
Commission filings identify many such risks and uncertainties. Any
forward-looking information in this press release is qualified in its
entirety by the risks and uncertainties described in such Securities and
Exchange Commission filings.

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