CPI Receives Military Communications Systems Contract November 19, 2008 [Satellite Today 11-19-08] Communications & Power Industries Inc. (CPI) has been awarded a $1.4 million contract to design, develop and test Ka-band traveling wave tubes and amplifiers for the U.S. Air Force, CPI announced Nov. 18.     The two-year contract was awarded by the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. The components will  support airborne communications applications.      “We expect the development work CPI is doing for this military communications program will result in significant technology advances for high-power Ka-band amplifiers and for  airborne communications applications,” Andy Tafler, president of CPI’s Satcom division, said in a statement.

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