Government/Military

Riverbed Technology has contracted iDirect Government Technologies (iGT) to resell its wide area network (WAN) optimization and network visibility solutions for U.S. government and military satellite networks, iDirect announced May 2.     The agreement will see iGT resell Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances, which aim to provide comprehensive cross-layer optimization resulting in significant performance enhancements over the...

Integral Systems’ Military and Intelligence Group (MIG) has been awarded approximately $21.8 million in multiple contracts from unnamed U.S. military and government agencies in the company’s 2011 second quarter, Integral announced May 2.     Under the terms of the contracts, Integral Systems will provide its Epoch Integrated Product Suite (IPS) satellite fleet management solution, as...

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) expressed “serious concerns” over defense budget spending outlined through the end of the 2011 fiscal year in a U.S. congress resolution passed in April.     The resolution, initially revealed on April 13, follows recommendations from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to appropriate at least $540 billion for fiscal year 2011...

ViaSat and STM Group successfully demonstrated waveform interoperability between the STM SatLink 2000 modem and the ViaSat Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM) for the U.S. Department of Defense, the companies announced April 27.     ViaSat said the demonstration milestone establishes the JIPM as the government-standard IP network satellite modem for connecting U.S. forces. The JIPM...

The Russian military successfully launched its Meridian 4 communications satellite May 4 on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Plesetsk space center. The satellite, representing the fourth in a series of military spacecraft designed to replace the country’s ageing Molniya defense system, joins more than 100 Russian satellites in orbit, of which two-thirds are military and...

Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $10 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop technical solutions that will help maintain command and control systems for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Raytheon announced April 26.     DARPA authorized the funds under its Resilient Command and Control (RC2) program, which aims to enhance...

U.S. Space has been awarded a $291,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to study feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite communication needs, the company announced April 19.     U.S. Space said the study would review commercial and other alternative approaches to the existing military satellite acquisition model and...

Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a Latin American military network, Comtech announced April 18.     The military customer will receive Comtech’s CDM-625 advanced satellite modems and LPOD block up-converters. The CDM-625 will be used...

EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight set of the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite architecture.     WGS-7 will support additional X- and Ka-band communications requirements for U.S. military warfighters. EMS Defense & Space will...

Canadian information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ (MDA) U.S. operation signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to provide advanced technology solutions for its 702HP communications satellites through 2012.     The technology aims to help 702HP satellites provide high-power communications for military and commercial satellite customers.     MDA already provides...