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Northrop 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.
Read MoreIt's a First — APSCC conducts a military satellite services workshop. Much history takes place over a decade, and the APSCC 2008 Satellite Conference and Exhibition is no exception. Known as APSCC’s flagship contribution to the satellite industry, the conference has been providing a globally integrated platform that covers every sector of the satellite industry as well as a unique briefing and networking opportunity to the participants of the event. This year the APSCC 2008 event, scheduled for September 22-25 in Jeju Island, at the Lott Hotel, will be launched on a bigger platform covering more issues than ever regarding the Asia-Pacific satellite industry.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. received a $9.3 million award from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to continue the development of the UHF SATCOM Integrated Waveform Channel Controller. This second phase of the Integrated Waveform (IW) development enables demand assigned services on UHF SATCOM networks to support new applications that require better performance and higher channel throughput.
Read MoreDataPath, Inc. has been awarded $1.7 million to provide field services support for the Ramstein Air Base satellite communications teleport operated by the U.S. Air Force.
Read MoreL-3 Electron Technologies, Inc. (L-3 ETI) has debuted their model 8923H dual-band 300W 30 GHz / 175W 45 GHz Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier. Designed for military SATCOM uplink applications, the new TWT has a remarkably small footprint and weighs less than four pounds.
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