- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
EMS SATCOM provides its customers with more efficient mobile communications resources when and where they need them. With its alliances and partners, the company has excelled at delivering products that provide critical resources to users in the air, on land and at sea. The company is a wholly owned division of Atlanta-based EMS Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ELMG), and is a pioneer in the development of satellite-based communications equipment. Its products and services enable users with real-time mobile broadband voice, data and videoconferencing capabilities virtually anywhere in the world. Located in Ottawa, Canada, EMS SATCOM employs over 230 people and has a development lab in Tewkesbury, U.K. The principal focus of EMS SATCOM is business and military aviation, but it has leveraged its expertise in satellite-based communications equipment to address the land mobile and maritime segments as well. Since 1978, the company has also been deeply involved in the Search and Rescue (SAR) field developing both equipment and software for the management of SAR operations that has saved more than 40,000 lives. Allied with Inmarsat, the world leader in mobile satellite communications, the companys products include terminals, antennas and radomes, and cabin network equipment. Its customers are front-runners in a diverse range of industry segments.