Government/Military

MVS USA announced that it has acquired ADCI, a mobile satellite applications and services company that has provided services to the United States government, the U.S. military and the Department of Homeland Security since 2001. According to MVS USA, the acquisition strengthens its position in the government and military sectors and is the first of...

The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), the government agency tasked with defending the country of Sweden and its interests, has awarded UltiSat a prime contract to provide satellite bandwidth in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Afghanistan. UltiSat is one of four awardees of an FMV agreement for satellite capacity over International Telecommunications Union...

One of the main defense priorities of the new presidential administration is to increase the resiliency of United States space assets against foreign powers, according to speakers at a Washington Space Business Roundtable (WSBR) panel on May 9. As John Hill, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, pointed out, with every new...

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated that multiple aircraft and ground stations can efficiently and securely communicate using the Boeing-developed Talon Hate airborne networking system. During flight testing at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Talon Hate pods on two F-15C aircraft enabled test pilots to share information through the military’s Link 16,...

A European nation has awarded Harris Corporation contracts valued at a total of $90 million for tactical radios as part of the country’s communications readiness program. Harris’ received the contracts during the third quarter of its fiscal 2017. The contracts include the company’s Falcon 2 AN/PRC-150C, which provides Beyond Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communications and assured communications...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, has won a five-year, Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for providing Blue Force Tracking (BFT 1) aviation terminals to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). BFT 1 is a battle command real-time situational awareness and control system. Under this contract, DLA will procure...

President Trump’s executive order to revive the National Space Council has already been written, said Robert Walker, former chairman of the House Science Committee, at a panel earlier this week. “It’s all set to go,” he said. “I think it’s imminent. I don’t know exactly when but everything is in place for it to happen.”...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data, received a $1.8 million contract award extension for additional Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Interface Processor (ATIP) production terminals and engineering support services from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The ATIP is a layer-2 Ethernet...

The fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 5) satellite is now delivering secure, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) communications to troops with legacy Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radios. The U.S. Navy, working with Army Forces Strategic Command, configured one of MUOS 5’s two communications payloads — its legacy UHF payload — to provide additional support for...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, which is part of Comtech’s government solutions segment, has received a five-year contract with a not-to-exceed value of $42.7 million to continue to provide sustainment support for the U.S. Army’s Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Blue Force...