Government/Military

Integral Systems and iDirect Government Technologies will partner as prime contractors under a $10 million U.S. Coast Guard award to equip its large cutter fleet with high-speed satellite communications technology, the companies announced Jan. 10.     The new system aims to upgrade the Coast Guard’s legacy commercial satellite infrastructure to a Ku-band system. E8350 satellite...

Infinity Systems Engineering won a $17.4 million contract from U.S. Air Force Space Command to provide communications and engineering support on three military communications satellite systems over the next five-and-a-half years, Infinity announced Jan. 7.     Infinity will support the Air Force’s 4th Space Operations and 614th Space Communications Squadrons in planning and operating the...

Astrotech Corp., a commercial aerospace services provider, was selected by the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) to provide payload processing services in support of the Pentagon’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) contract program, Astrotech announced Jan. 7.     Astrotech’s Space Operations business unit will provide payload processing for up to five satellite...

Artel received a contract under the Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) contract to provide satellite services, the company announced Jan. 6.     The order to provide transponded capacity and subsription services is “worth tens of millions of dollars” and is the first under the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and Defense Information Services...

Northrop Grumman has received approval from the U.S. Air Force to begin production on its Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) Support System (JSS), the company announced Jan. 5.     After integration with other air and space operations center systems, JSS will be deployed to as many as 26 Air Force and joint military sites worldwide....

Savi Technology passed demonstration tests conducted by government- and industry-backed authorities for performance, reliability and accuracy of its low-power wireless sensor technology, the company announced Jan. 4.     Savi Technology’s products were certified by Met Laboratories, an independent testing authority working with Dash7, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7...

Arinc Engineering Services has retained its role as Technical Support provider to U.S. Strategic Command for the joint planning and management of Satellite Communications resources of the U.S. Department of Defense, Arinc announced Jan. 3     Arinc will continue support and development work on the Joint Satellite Communications Management and Planning System (JSMPS) and the...

ImageSat International has reached a settlement agreement with the Serbian government, which will see the Balkan country pay 27 million euros ($35.5 million) for canceling a contract it signed with the company in 2005 to provide a military intelligence satellite.     The settlement follows a ruling by a London arbitration court that ordered Serbia to...

Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $2.1 million in funding by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for two projects under the Information in a Photon program.      The goal of the projects is to develop techniques that enable optical communications and imaging systems to operate at their limits of information encoding efficiency and...

Italy’s Cosmo-SkyMed constellation is complete and fully operational after the system’s fourth satellite began sending images to ground stations, the Italian Space Agency announced.     Cosmo SkyMed-4, the final satellite of the end-to-end Earth observation constellation, was launched in November from Vandenberg Air Force Base and deployed in low-Earth orbit.     Thales Alenia Space developed...