Government/Military

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. has been awarded a $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide communications products and services, the company announced Sept. 20. The contract will support Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and includes options that could make the contract worth up to $64 million. The...

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development and Test Wing awarded      Lockheed Martin a $2.4 million task order to support missions of the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center, the company announced Sept. 18. Under the one-year contract, Lockheed Martin will provide the enterprise management framework, mission management and...

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force awarded   Comtech EF Data Corp. a $5.3 million development contract for the High Data Rate Radio Frequency Ground Modem, the company announced Sept. 18. The modem will provide high data rate capabilities on next generation Wideband Global Satcom satellites and will support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications...

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The  Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), a Dubai government organization, plans to launch its DubaiSat-1 spacecraft in 2008, the organization announced. The satellite is intended to make the United Arab Emirates one of the global leaders in science and technology development.  “As the UAE continues to develop on...

[09-18-07 – Satellite Today] Altium Ltd. has donated software to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Space Flight Laboratory to support the school’s CanX satellite missions, the company announced Sept. 18. Altium has supplied Altium Designer unified licenses with a market value of $71,960 to support the graduate lab’s research into novel technologies...

[09-18-07 – Satellite Today]  Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has delivered the U.S. Department of Defense’s Tactical Satellite 3 Spacecraft Bus (TacSat-3) to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for final integration and test, the company announced Sept. 18. The spacecraft is a joint effort of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Air Force Space Command,...

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today]  RT Logic won a contract to demonstrate its high data rate receiver and test modulator for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., the company announced Sept. 17. The Telemetrix 1200HDR receiver will be used for NASA‘s Tracking Delay Satellite System K-Band Upgrade Project. Honeywell is the prime contractor for the program. NASA is...

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today]  The General Dynamics-Lockheed Martin Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) team received a contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue development of the system as well as accelerate delivery of capabilities, the companies announced Sept. 17. In June, the Army announced it would restructure and accelerate the WIN-T program, which will serve...

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today]  AeroAstro has won two contracts to provide communications equipment to NASA and another unnamed U.S. government agency, the company announced Sept. 12. AeroAstro, a business unit for Radyne Corp., received a Phase II contract to continue development for a reconfigurable digital extra-vehicular activity radio in support of NASA’s Exploration Initiative. The...

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  Spacenet Inc. has introduced a new mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle (ECV) for disaster recovery and first-responder organizations, the company announced Sept. 13. The ECV is based on a GM H2 Hummer, and serves as a transportable command post that can usually be deployed in 10 minutes or less and provides converged...