Government/Military

[Satellite Today 06-10-09] Iridium Satellite received a contract from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, to support development and delivery of the Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS), Iridium announced...

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) successfully launched TacSat-3 at 11:55 p.m. UTC on May 19 after it was delayed in order to remove off shore boaters from the exclusion area, ATK announced...

Lockheed Martin won a $1.5 billion contract to build the third Space Based Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite, the U.S. Air Force announced May 29.     The cost-plus, fixed...

Swiss aerospace, defense and security technology group, Ruag has purchased Oerlikon Space AG, the space division of Swiss technology developer Oerlikon for an undisclosed amount of cash, Oerlikon announced June...

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded Raytheon an information assurance and network operations contract to design, transition and operate a secure voice, video and data-information sharing and collaboration...

The bandwidth needs of the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense and its coalition forces have increased to the point where the U.S. government now relies on commercial...

Comtech Mobile Datacom’s new Blue Force Tracking High Capacity (BFT-HC) system could be ready for military operations as early as this summer, with a rollout target that coincides with the...

Germany is looking to be more innovative going forward with its military space strategy by building its own next generation military space system, SAR-Lupe. Brig. General Martin Schelleis, assistant chief...

Orbit Technology Group won a contract with the French Navy worth over $4 million, to supply Ku-Band and C-Band marine satellite communication systems from OrSat, Orbit announced May 21.    ...

[Satellite Today 06-08-09] General Dynamics Satcom Technologies won a $119 million order to provide additional satellite communications earth terminals and support services for the U.S. Army‘s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T)...