Lockheed Martin — SATCOM For Subs
Lockheed Martin Corp. is being awarded a $10,232,032 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order # 0002 under previously awarded contract (N00014-09-D-0702) for the Integrated Topside program.
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Harris — Shipboard SATCOM Supports Sailors
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a follow-on $10.7 million order from the U.S. Navy for 23 shipboard terminals that will provide personnel onboard frigates, access to the Internet, video and other high-speed, broadband services.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications — Big Deal For Force XXI
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, has received a $20.6 million order under its existing $243.5 million BFT contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command.
Read MoreBoeing — Tests Triumphant For WGS III
Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on March 1, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of rigorous on-orbit tests.
Read MoreLockheed Martin — Determined DSCS Does A Decade
The U.S. Air Force’s Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B8 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has now surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service in providing secure and reliable communications capabilities for the warfighter.
Read MoreHughes — Care Enough To Send The Very Best To Troops
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has signed Operation AC as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) of broadband satellite services focused on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Read MoreMarshall Communications — Doing Good For DISA/DoD
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded MARSHALL Communications Corporation two contracts for maintenance and support on the DVB-RCS Hub located in Landstuhl, Germany, and the Hub located at DISA’s Skyline, Falls Church facility.
Read MoreSpain + Norway — MilSatBrothers
Spain is to supply the technology for a new communications satellite for the Norwegian army, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg informed reporters.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space Ships Sats — For German Military
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has shipped to the Kourou spaceport the second ComSatBw satellite, which will be launched on March 24 by an Ariane 5 ECA.
Read MoreU.S.A.F. — It’s All About SATCOM, Navigation + Timing For Haitian Relief Activities
Members of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB are continuing to support relief efforts in Haiti by providing space effects, such as satellite communications and position timing and navigation services.
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