Government/Military

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during its third quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded option period two of contract GS03Q17DSC0002 with an overall potential value of approximately $8.5 million. To date funding in the overall amount of $5.2 million has been applied to option period two via contract modifications. The...

Maxar Technologies was awarded a follow-on contract valued at $4.3 million by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test its Geospatial Cloud Analytics (GCA) Hub. The GCA Hub is an unclassified environment with multi-source content that helps enable military users to leverage Machine Learning (ML) to extract insights about the planet at scale and...

PathFinder Digital was awarded a follow-on contract by General Dynamics Mission Systems for the production and delivery of BAT-750 MVSAT terminals for integration and use on the U.S. Army Prophet Program. PathFinder Digital’s BAT-750 is a fly-away and/or vehicle mount satellite communications terminal operating in Ku-band. PathFinder’s BAT-1214 and BAT-850 terminals operate in Ka-, Ku-...

Raytheon‘s Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Operational Control System program, known as GPS OCX, completed final qualification testing of the system’s modernized monitor station receivers, which are now ready to be installed around the world starting in August. GPS OCX is the ground control segment of a U.S. Air Force-led effort to modernize America’s GPS...

MDA, a Maxar company, was awarded an initial contract value of approximately $30 million (CAD $39 million) with Public Services and Procurement Canada. The initial contract includes the development and manufacturing of 10 flight-ready Search and Rescue/Global Positioning System (SAR/GPS) repeaters to be launched on the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellites, as well as...

We’re past the days of the Cold War, but concerns about the growing complexities of geopolitical relationships — and how those complexities could impact the space and satellite industry — are amplifying. And while the international satellite industry has largely embraced a spirit of cooperation, regulatory experts have raised new concerns over everything from space...

There are three important agenda items at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) in October, panelists told the annual SATELLITE show Wednesday: Spectrum, spectrum, and spectrum. The infamous agenda item 1.13, which calls for allocating additional spectrum blocks — some of which are currently used by the satellite industry — to terrestrial mobile or cellular...

Vice President Mike Pence lauded U.S. leadership in the booming global space industry and renewed the Trump administration’s call to stand up a new Space Force at the Pentagon in a May 6 keynote speech at the annual SATELLITE show in Washington, D.C. Speaking to an audience of U.S. and global government officials, industry partners,...

NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011, respectively: faulty materials provided by aluminum manufacturer, Sapa Profiles (SPI). LSP’s technical investigation led to the involvement of NASA’s Office of the Inspector General and...

Peraton, a national security company, received a contract award from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) to expand its Test and Evaluation (T&E) support on the Mission, Maintenance, Future Requirements (MMFR) program for range instrumentation systems. The contract is valued at $33M million over a five-year period. The program aims to expand Peraton’s...