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Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and Boeing Corporation contractors took over early-orbit operations on Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Vehicle 1 from a Boeing facility in El Segundo, California, on October 10th, approximately 30 minutes after the vehicle was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Read MoreThe Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] / Northrop Grumman [NYSE:NOC] team has successfully completed the last in a series of verification tests of its Next Generation Processor Router (NGPR). These tests were performed during the Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment.
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired signals from the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite. This is a new military spacecraft to help meet the growing demand for military satellite communications by providing a 10x increase in telecommunications capacity over the satellite it will replace.
Read MoreHarmonic Inc. [NASDAQ: HLIT] has announced that General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] is implementing Harmonic’s IP-based digital video and HFC broadband access solutions to upgrade the cable video system operated at the Pentagon. The project included an upgrade of the entire video headend and expansion of the transport infrastructure to support more standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video channels, as well as on-demand video applications.
Read MoreThere can be no doubt that ultra-secure data transmission is a critical component in military communications. However, for such to be successfully deployed, the technology must be available at reasonable cost and convenience. That is the core innovation of NuCrypt.
Read MoreThere can be no doubt that ultra-secure data transmission is a critical component in military communications. However, for such to be successfully deployed, the technology must be available at reasonable cost and convenience. That is the core innovation of NuCrypt.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ: CMTL] subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has garnered a $1.2 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for satellite communications infrastructure equipment. The equipment will be deployed to support a new, managed satellite-based communications network.
Read MoreRockwell Collins successfully completed over-the-air downlink acquisition tests with the U.S. Milstar satellite constellation as part of the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-Of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) program. This milestone is the initial step in demo’ing compatibility with legacy Milstar Army, Navy and Air Force terminals and ensuring future operations with the DoD's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite system terminals.
Read MoreBoeing is currently building a communications satellite network for the military and there’s a great deal of interest in this work by… Australia. The country may well join in with this effort and help with some of the monies necessary to fund the project.
Read MoreGeneral Dynamics SATCOM Technologies is the recipient of a US$24 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J. The company will provide specialized satellite communications earth terminals and support services for the Joint Network Node-Network (JNN-N) program, now known as Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T).
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