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TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received an additional $7.1 million in funding from the U.S. Army for the maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems deployed outside the United States.
Read MoreSecure World Foundation has released a budget analysis that examines an array of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) space security programs as outlined in its Fiscal Year 2011 budget request.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force has selected Raytheon for a contract of $886 million to develop a new element of the Global Positioning System (GPS), called the Advanced Control Segment (OCX), to improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites.
Read MoreMilitary communications on operations are to be further enhanced, thanks to a new ?400 million contract to use a new satellite, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Quentin Davies, has announced.
Read MoreThe GAO has found that a long-standing problem in DoD space acquisitions is that program and unit costs tend to go up significantly from initial cost estimates, while in some cases, the capability that was to be produced declines.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking ("BFT-1") program contract with the U.S. Army.
Read MoreHarris Corporation (NYSE: HRS has received an order valued at $78 million to provide additional Falcon II(r) AN/VRC-104 high-frequency tactical radio systems for use in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs).
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Navigation Systems Division has recently broken ground on a facility expansion designed to increase factory output and better serve its commercial, defense and national security customers.
Read MoreBob Brewin in nextgov has succinctly summarized the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initiation of a multibillion-dollar governmentwide procurement to purchase commercial satellite communications services to provide everything from connectivity for forces in Afghanistan to distance learning systems in the United States.
Read MoreSpaceport Systems International (SSI), a limited partnership between ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) and California Commercial Spaceport, Inc., has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide spaceport launch services for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Test Squadron.
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