---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000023197-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMTL"
cik: "0000023197"
company_name: "COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-06-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T06:07:55.223843+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Comtech appoints Bruce T. Crawford and Ellen M. Lord to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointed Lieutenant General (Ret.) Bruce T. Crawford and Hon. Ellen M. Lord as directors effective June 15, 2023, increasing board to nine members, eight independent.
- Crawford brings over 37 years of leadership, national security, IT and cybersecurity experience, including as Army CIO overseeing $15B IT budget.
- Lord served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, overseeing $400B annual budget, and previously President/CEO of Textron Systems.
- Director Lisa Lesavoy notified retirement effective immediately preceding next annual shareholder meeting, reducing board to eight members.
- New directors will serve on various committees: Crawford on Nominating/Governance, Science/Technology, Strategic; Lord on Audit, Science/Technology, Compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000023197-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMTL
- cik: 0000023197
- company_name: COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-06-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319723000025/0000023197-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319723000025/cmtl-20230602.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce T. Crawford was appointed as director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 2, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (“Comtech”) appointed Lieutenant General (Retired) ("LTG (Ret.)") Bruce T. Crawford and the Honorable Ellen M. Lord as directors, effective June 15, 2023, to the Board increasing its size to nine members, eight of whom are independent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319723000025/0000023197-23-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lisa Lesavoy retired as director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 2, 2023, Lisa Lesavoy notified the Board of her intention to retire as a director from the Company’s Board effective immediately preceding the next annual shareholder meeting, where Ms. Lesavoy will not stand for re-election to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319723000025/0000023197-23-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ellen M. Lord was appointed as director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 2, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (“Comtech”) appointed Lieutenant General (Retired) ("LTG (Ret.)") Bruce T. Crawford and the Honorable Ellen M. Lord as directors, effective June 15, 2023, to the Board increasing its size to nine members, eight of whom are independent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319723000025/0000023197-23-000025-index.htm

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