KVH Industries, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of mobile communication products for the marine, land mobile, and aeronautical markets primarily in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company also offers navigation, guidance, and stabilization products for the defense and commercial markets. Its mobile communications products and airtime services include TracVision, a satellite television system; TracPhone, a two-way satellite communications system; mini-VSAT Broadband, a broadband mobile satellite communications network; and CommBox, a network management hardware and software; digital compasses under Azimuth and Sailcomp names; and TACNAV tactical navigation systems, which enable customers to receive voice, Internet, and live digital television services in marine vessels, recreational vehicles, automobiles, and commercial airplanes. The company’s guidance and stabilization products consist of precision fiber optic gyro-based systems that stabilize platforms, such as gun turrets, remote weapon stations, and radar units; and provide guidance for munitions, as well as tactical navigation systems for a range of military vehicles, including tactical trucks and light armored vehicles. Its guidance and stabilization products are used in precision mapping, dynamic surveying, autonomous vehicles, train location control and track geometry measurement systems, industrial robotics, and optical stabilization. The company sells its mobile communications products through an international network of retailers, distributors, and dealers; and guidance and stabilization products directly to the United States and allied governments, and government contractors, as well as through an international network of authorized independent sales representatives. KVH Industries, Inc. also leases its products directly to end users. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Middletown, Rhode Island.

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