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Home» News»GDMS Awarded Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) Contract
GDMS Awarded Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast Contract
Teaming with Dragonfly Pictures, Inc. will expand U.S. Navy’s ship-to-ship communications capabilities (GDMS photo)

GDMS Awarded Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) Contract

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) announced it was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design, fabricate, test, and deliver Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) prototypes to the U.S. Navy.

Naval News Staff 20 Sep 2022

General Dynamics Mission Systems press release

C-TEM was competitively procured via the Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems multiple award contract and provides line-of-sight communication extension for surface ships.

A delivery order for the first C-TEM mast has been exercised with $10.1 million of funding obligated at the time of award. Work will be performed in Essington, Pennsylvania (48%); Pittsfield, Massachusetts (35%); Taunton, Massachusetts (14%); and Fair Lakes, Virginia (3%), and is expected to be completed by December 2023. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this delivery order to $39.4 million. If all options are exercised, work will continue through June 2027.

“General Dynamics Mission Systems leadership as a mission integrator for the Navy’s hybrid fleet is coupled with the innovative offering from our small business teammate Dragonfly Pictures Inc. Our solution will provide extended sensor, network and communications capabilities for the future Hybrid fleet.”


Stan Kordana, Vice President for Surface Systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems

“Terrestrial communications remains a critical tool for digital connectivity for manned and unmanned vehicles. Elevating antennas from moving platforms is no easy task as it requires a well-coordinated dance between air-sea platforms. We believe C-TEM systems can have meaningful impact on future naval unmanned maritime missions around the globe.”


Mike Piasecki, President, Dragonfly Pictures

General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics provides mission-critical solutions to the challenges facing defense, intelligence and cyber security customers across all domains.

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Our coverage of C-TEM during Sea Air Space 2022.

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