Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 10-12-10] NATO has contracted ViaSat to integrate and install three UHF Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) Network Control Stations (NCS) and related turnkey services, ViaSat announced Oct. 11.     NATO’s $14 million NCS systems contract award includes an order for ViaSat UHF DAMA NCS software, RT-1830 and RT-1829 UHF satcom terminals, UHF satcom...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-12-10] In efforts to bounce back from a tough year and an executive leadership change, Com Dev, now under the direction of COO and interim CEO Mike Pley, announced it will enter into a development partnership with Inmarsat in order to support government deals in the United States and Europe.     The...

NATO has contracted ViaSat to integrate and install three UHF Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) Network Control Stations (NCS) and related turnkey services, ViaSat announced Oct. 11.     NATO’s $14 million NCS systems contract award includes an order for ViaSat UHF DAMA NCS software, RT-1830 and RT-1829 UHF satcom terminals, UHF satcom antenna systems, and...

Engineers working for San Diego-based end-to-end satellite solution provider Tachyon Networks were inspired to develop their own military comms-on-the-move (COTM) solution after receiving feedback from customers for a product their company was re-selling. According to Tachyon Vice President of Sales and Marketing Dan Negroni, the challenge began with meeting customer demand.   “These customers came to...

Horizon Satellite Services is finding it more difficult to secure capacity deals in the Middle East as the satellite telecommunications industry continues to boom in emerging markets, Horizon Managing Director Hisham Ansari told Via Satellite.     “During the last two to three years, few satellites were launched with coverage on the region. Some new satellites...

The U.S. Army has increased TeleCommunication Systems’ (TCS) potential satellite terminal spare parts order contract ceiling to $9.3 million, TCS announced Oct. 8. The order, which was made under the Army’s $5 billion World-Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS) contract vehicle, initially is funded at $5.3 million and will be funded up to $9.3 million if the...

The European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned Spanish information technology specialist Indra to design a radar system prototype for ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program, Indra announced.     The two-year, $7.3 million contract will see Indra develop a system prototype that can detect objects in low-Earth Orbits (LEO) between 200 and 2,000 kilometers as well as a...

MDA’s U.S. operation MDA Information Systems, received a contract to provide an advanced information solution to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Army Geospatial Center (AGC), MDA announced.      The solution will work to provide a demonstration system to display the capability of receiving MDA’s Radarsat-2 and DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 data using a very small, tactically...

SpaceX’s upcoming NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration mission will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla.. and will a flight plan nearly identical to Falcon 9’s June debut launch, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in an Oct. 5 statement.     Musk said the difference between the Falcon 9 debut and the first COTS launch is...

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 into law after Congress approved the measure earlier this month.     The Act, originally drafted by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee authorizes appropriations for NASA’s 2011, 2012 and 2013 fiscal years, which are largely in line with President Obama’s fiscal...