Focus: Military

The Russian military launched a Soyuz-2.1 carrier rocket today, carrying the Meridian communications satellite, according to the Defense Ministry’s Zvezda broadcasting service. The rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome...

France is accelerating plans to militarize its satellite technology, French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly said during a July 25 presentation of the European nation’s new space strategy. Parly’s plans...

Hughes Network Systems was awarded an $11.8 million Research and Development (R&D) contract by the U.S. Army, to help improve resiliency and interoperability among satcom systems for military communications. The...

Airbus agreed to a five-year contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD) to manage test and reference services to support the delivery and assured release of Command, Control, Communications, Computers,...

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded $4.2 million in rapid innovation funding from the U.S. Army for...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was awarded a follow on Task Order (TO) by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). Valued at approximately $15.1 million, it was...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) selected Speedcast Government as one of multiple awardees under the Tactical Communications Equipment and Services II (TacCom II) contract vehicle with a total...

Robert Cardillo has joined HawkEye 360‘s advisory board. Cardillo is the former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a highly experienced national security professional and geospatial expert. During...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions received a $4.1 million contract award to provide hardware and subsystems in support of a Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR)...

The U.S. Army is crafting its first-ever tactical space layer strategy, said one service member involved in the strategic development June 11. “Right now, we are looking at producing a...