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An urgent call from the Pentagon’s Joint staff to Intelsat General Corp., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., resulted in a multiyear contract under which Intelsat will reposition one of the company’s satellites halfway around the globe to serve military units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read MoreHarris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) announced that the OS/COMET COTS product for satellite control now includes NEO™, a Network Enabled Operations capability for platform-independent remote access.
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] has demo'd, for the first time, the ability to deliver streaming video over a mobile, ad hoc tactical network from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a Chinook helicopter and ground troops.
Read MoreSpacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] introduced its new Cisco integrated Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certified encryption solution over satellite that provides new satellite communications options to government customers, including services for CONUS based Department of Defense agencies and backhaul services between EMEA and the U.S. utilizing their existing Cisco infrastructure.
Read MoreDataPath, Inc., a provider of worldwide satellite and wireless communications networks, has been awarded $12 million by the U.S. Army for Ka band conversion kits, spares kits and technical services that enable DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and other systems on the battlefield to operate using the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
Read MoreGlobecomm Systems Inc. has debuted their Ka-band version of its 1.2m Auto-Explorer satellite terminal specifically designed for operation with the U.S. Department of Defense Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
Read MoreHarris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been selected to supply additional Rugged Deployable Satellite Communications Terminals (RDSATs) to the U.S. Navy First Construction Division — the Seabees — under a two-year, $30 million follow-on order.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) received an order from the U.S. Army for initial production of the nexgen Blue Force Tracking (BFT-2) transceivers for the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) satellite network upgrade.
Read MoreConnecting more than 15 thousand military with a local broadband satellite Internet network in Iraq and Afghanistan is an accomplishment that TS2 Satellite Technologies doesn't take lightly — this is their specialty — providing global satellite communication services in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure.
Read MoreArrowhead Global Solutions, the government services division of CapRock Communications, has been awarded two multimillion dollar contracts to provide more than 200 MHz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. Government agencies.
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