, PARIS: Alcatel Alenia Space announced that it has signed a Euro 103 million contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense to provide the telecommunication satellite SICRAL-1B.
The satellite, dedicated to the Italian Armed Forces, will ensure strategic and tactical communications on the Italian and foreign territories as well as mobile communications between terrestrial, naval and air platforms. It will also provide UHF and SHF band satellite capacities to NATO forces, further to a Memorandum of Understanding which was signed in 2004 between the Ministries of Defense of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and the Atlantic Alliance.
This contract, signed end of 2006, is financed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, in the scope of the industry competitiveness and high technology initiatives currently undertaken by the Ministry.
As prime contractor, Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture and deliver the satellite as well as several ground segment
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