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Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has introduced an operational commercial X-band service offering to U.S. Military and Coalition Forces operating in Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Read MoreIridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) and ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) announced ITT has received a contract from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division to supply 1,450 Iridium-based handheld tactical satellite communication devices for use by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read MoreThe launch of the U.S. Air Force's Delta IV Wideband Global SATCOM-3 mission scheduled for December 2nd has been delayed 24 hours, due to approaching inclement weather.
Read MoreIFF interrogator and transponder have successfully completed the Mode 5 comprehensive interoperability tests in the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (US NAVAIR) laboratories.
Read MoreThe Air Force has scheduled the launch of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite aboard a Delta IV launch vehicle December 2 at 7:21 p.m. EST from Pad 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Read MoreThe launch of the ULA Delta IV rocket with the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-3 satellite from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida is uncertain as the initial weather forecast calls for only a 20 percent chance of acceptable weather on Wednesday, December 2 with a launch window of 7:21-8:41 p.m. EST.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications Corp.'s (Nasdaq:CMTL) subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received US$2.4 million in orders for satellite modems and redundancy switches.
Read MoreMajor General Paul F. Capasso, Director of Infrastructure Delivery in the Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer for the Secretary of the Air Force, will be the luncheon Keynote Speaker on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009, at the DoD Commercial SATCOM Users Workshop.
Read MoreViaSat (Nasdaq:VSAT) is offering a new Ethernet Service Expansion Module (ESEM) baseband interface for the MD-1366 Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM) that promotes Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) modem interoperability across Department of Defense (DoD) satellite networks and adds new feature updates as well.
Read MoreGilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] received a multi-million dollar contract from a government defense agency in Asia, in return for the delivery of a turnkey broadband communications solution.
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