Government/Military

Hughes Network Systems‘ Jupiter System was chosen as the ground network platform for a new satellite over Indonesia. The contract for construction and operation of the 150 Gigabits Per Second (Gbps) “Multifunctional Satellite” has been awarded by the Government of Indonesia, through its Ministry of Communication and Informatics, to the PSN Consortium led by PT...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) selected Speedcast Government as one of multiple awardees under the Tactical Communications Equipment and Services II (TacCom II) contract vehicle with a total ceiling value of $3.0 Billion over its 5-year term. TacCom II is designed to provide federal agencies with access to the latest tools and technologies....

Robert Cardillo has joined HawkEye 360‘s advisory board. Cardillo is the former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a highly experienced national security professional and geospatial expert. During his tenure as the sixth director of the NGA, Cardillo sought to leverage the growing commercial capabilities of the geospatial industry. Prior to the NGA,...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions received a $4.1 million contract award to provide hardware and subsystems in support of a Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) aerial defense related program and platform. Kratos’ C5ISR Modular Systems business provides specialized, High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Protected (HEMP) products, systems and subsystems in support...

The U.S. Army is crafting its first-ever tactical space layer strategy, said one service member involved in the strategic development June 11. “Right now, we are looking at producing a LEO [Low-Earth Orbit]-focused tactical space layer” to focus on communications, Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and battle management command and control (BMC2), said Maj. Randall...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission launched from Launch Complex 39A, Tuesday, June 25 at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four NASA technology and science payloads that will study non-toxic spacecraft fuel, deep space navigation, “bubbles” in the...

Comtech Systems, a subsidiary of Comtech Government Solutions, signed a $4 million contract with the Brazilian Armed Forces to expand a satellite-based network for its air traffic control system. In an June 24 announcement, the company said it would provide the military with new remote satellite terminals and services under the new contract. “Our long-standing...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to shine a light on the impact of the solar atmosphere on the interplanetary medium between the Earth and the Sun. According to NASA, “it’s a go” for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, which is a cooperative effort between SwRI...

NASA, one of the U.S. government agencies that manages GPS, wants to expand the navigation system’s application in a place many probably never thought of using it — space itself. “We believe [there] will be major benefits for the satellite community during the coming years, based on what we’ve been able to prove out with...

Machine Learning (ML) could help the U.S. military harness Precision, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) data it can already access to detect spoofing or jamming efforts more quickly, a Marine Corps engineer said June 12. In focusing particularly on GPS technologies, industry and warfighters alike are not taking enough advantage of PNTdata that can be extracted...