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Arrowhead Global Solutions has been awarded a task order with an estimated life cycle value of US$11.5 million by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide space segment and operations and maintenance (O&M) support for the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) to deliver critical information to the warfighter.
Read MoreGood work by Aruba Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: ARUN], provider of wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, deployed their wireless networks by Babylon Telecommunications Inc. at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to provide Internet access to over 20,000 soldiers.
Read MoreThales Communications, Inc., has announced the Company's participation on the winning team selected by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) to provide the tactical communications and networking solutions for the JTRS Airborne, Maritime, and Fixed Site (AMF) program.
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has completed integrating all electronic units of the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite.
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has completed integrating all electronic units of the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite.
Read MoreFrom Reuters, we learn the U.S. Air Force still plans to award Boeing or Lockheed Martin Corp a contract worth billions of dollars this fall to build a group of advanced military communications satellites, the general in charge of Air Force Space Command said on Tuesday.
Read MoreLockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - News) has successfully delivered a space communications system that will bring more accurate and timely decision-making information to U.S. Air Force Space Commanders. This upgrade to the Combatant Commanders Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S) communications processing system enhances space message delivery reliability to and from the Space Data Operations Center.
Read MoreUp until now Boeing's [NYSE: BA] tests of Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites inside a thermal-vacuum chamber have been completed successfully and in record time. Once again their technicians prepare the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for an around-the-clock sequence of tests inside a thermal-vacuum chamber at the company's satellite manufacturing facility. Boeing is building six WGS satellites for the U.S. Air Force; the first was put into operation in April.
Read MoreStratos Global Corporation has successfully completed a FleetBroadband field trial with its long-standing customer, the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). The successful trial led to the RNLN's purchase of the FleetBroadband from Stratos service, which it will use to manage its daily operations at sea. RNLN is the first organization to commercially deploy the FleetBroadband service.
Read MoreIt's no secret that military communications remain an essential part of security operations. That technology extends in range from equipping military personnel with devices so they can communicate on operations to providing centralized systems for organizing battle and security operations on land, sea and in the air. Currently, all military forces rely heavily on sophisticated electronic communications systems, with technology transferring to and from civilian communications systems, both those in use and those in development.
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