Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corp. have established a test bed intended to demonstrate network-centric missions that will be enabled by the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) system, Northrop Grumman announced.

The test bed, based upon technologies developed for the Milstar and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite communications systems, is intended to demonstrate how data collected by multiple intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms can be processed and disseminated directly to commanders in the field, air or at sea and at operations centers.