Government/Military

[Satellite Today 07-15-09] Raytheon completed testing of the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communications production terminals for the U.S. Army, the company announced July 14. Raytheon, whose terminals are the first AEHF military systems of its kind to enter production, is working under a $97.5 million contract to produce and install AEHF upgrade...

[Satellite Today 07-14-09] Northrop Grumman was awarded the first phase of a $30 million U.S. Air Force contract to develop the S-Band Space Fence, a global space surveillance ground radar system, the company announced July 13.     The program is part of a U.S. Department of Defense effort to track and detect resident space objects...

[Satellite Today 07-14-09] Iridium Satellite and Boeing achieved two milestones in coordinated efforts to develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to a high-integrity GPS program for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the companies announced July 13.      For the first milestone, the companies completed an enhanced narrowband software modification to computers on Iridium satellites, enabling second-generation...

[Satellite News 07-10-09] The recent cancellation of the U.S. Air Force’s Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) and a tightening U.S. defense budget have led to MORE cooperative dialog between military agencies and commercial providers, Intelsat General President Kay Sears told Satellite News.     Sears said the dialog is advancing towards inclusion of commercial satellites in a...

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] Orbital Sciences Corp. won a $40 million contract to build a science satellite for NASA, the company announced July 9.     Orbital Sciences will design, manufacture, integrate and test the low-orbit satellite, which will study X-rays in space. The satellite is scheduled to launch by 2015.     The contract was awarded to...

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received an additional $6.8 million of funding from the U.S. Army to provide additional Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) X-band VSAT Satellite Systems, TCS announced July 9.     The order, under the Army’s SNAP program, includes options for about 1,500 terminals and...

[Satellite Today 07-10-09] Scalable Network Technologies (SNT), a wireless network evaluation service, was awarded a $2 million phase 2.5 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Army to create an enterprise solution for mobile network communications simulation for the Army’s JTRS Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) testing, training and experimentation, SNT announced July 9. ...

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Raytheon Co. has launched a satellite imagery upgrade application for the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that will allow the agency to improve its ingestion and dissemination of commercially provided satellite imagery, Raytheon announced July 8.     The improvement enables the NGA to then transmit the imagery information to global warfighters and...

[Satellite Today 07-09-09] Telespazio has taken over management of a Galileo satellite constellation control center, the company said July 8.     Telespazio will begin cabling the entire structure as well as installing and integrating required systems and equipment for the satellite constellation and mission. The company said its work will begin on the areas dedicated...

[Satellite News 07-08-09] Sat-GE, a subsidiary of GE, will see strong growth in Asia throughout the next 12 months, CEO Andrew Jordan told Satellite News.     “Prospects for Sat-GE are good,” Jordan said. “We are growing rapidly through demand in all sectors and notably from GSM backhaul and government/military, where demand is steady. We also...