Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-14-12] Raytheon has submitted a proposal to the Air Force for its Space Fence program to tackle the increasingly critical issue of space debris in orbit.  The Space Fence system will replace the Air Force’s Space Surveillance System radar that has been operational since 1961. The system is actually a large S-band...

[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Communications solutions provider Globecomm Systems received a $4.5 million contract from the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) to upgrade its previously deployed GPS-Based Force tracking System (FTS) to handle additional capacity and add additional features, Globecomm announced Nov. 13. The upgrade deal builds on a previously announced NATO contracts awarded...

[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite, turning over Satellite Control Authority (SCA) to the 14th Air Force for operations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the organizations announced Nov. 14. The on-orbit testing displayed AEHF-2’s interoperability...

[Satellite TODAY 11-13-12] Raytheon Company has met critical performance requirements to advance ongoing system integration on the U.S. Navy Cobra Judy Replacement (CJR) program by achieving two significant milestones during testing onboard the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25), the company announced Nov. 13.       Raytheon demonstrated the full-power radiation capability for the...

We can safely assume that U.S. President Barack Obama didn’t have much of a re-election celebration last week. After all, the executive and legislative branches of the government have just a few weeks to figure out how to avert both the so-called “fiscal cliff” and $110 billion in automatic cuts to defense and domestic programs...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will design the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Protected Military Satellite Communications (Milsatcom) program, the organizations announced Nov. 5.    The contract for design concepts was issued by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, aiming to protect challenged and threatened high-security communications. SS/L plans to fulfill the contract by combining commercial...

If the market analysis reports are correct, military satellite size and demand are heading in the opposite direction, as the fiscally constrained international market will result in more cooperation between nations on developing and sharing military capabilities. That cooperation was put on full display at the 2012 Hosted Payload Summit this past September, which followed...

Government sequestration in the United States will significantly harm ongoing national defense operations and procurement of new systems needed by warfighters, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marion Blakey said in a statement published earlier this week to promote the organization’s Second to None campaign.    Blakey said sequestration will not only have disastrous results for...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Honeywell, Intel Corp., Lockheed Martin and RSA/EMC have founded the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA) as a private, non-profit research consortium formed to develop public-private collaboration addressing complex problems in cyber security.    CSRA said it seeks to achieve coordinated industry participation to address national cyber security research and development imperatives...

Judging by recent plans unveiled for new satellite models and the buzz surrounding hosted payloads, the commercial satellite sector seems to have noticed the trend of increasing demand for smaller, alternative military space platforms. In late July, ATK expanded its product line of small, agile satellite buses designed for a wide range of missions in...