MILSATCOM

Lockheed Martin has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) to advance Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) connectivity. Under this CRADA, Lockheed Martin and AvMC will ...

The Marine Corps' UH-1Y helicopter completed an initial flight to test the data transmission of the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) MILSATCOM capability for the MQ-25 Stingray at Pax River. MQ-25 Stingray. Photo is courtesy of Boeing. The team ...

SES Space & Defense will provide satellite communications capabilities in support of the U.S. Army Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WINT-T) training activities. Photo of the SES GovSat-1 satellite, courtesy of Northrop Grumman The five-year, Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Transponded Capacity (CTC) ...

Inmarsat Government recently completed cross-country, multi-site demonstrations of Inmarsat’s L-band Tactical Radio (L-TAC) service. The multi-site demonstration was conducted from Inmarsat Government’s headquarters in Reston, Virginia, as well as locations in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Fort Liberty, North Carolina. The ...

Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) BBN division and SpiderOak have announced a strategic partnership to develop and field a new generation of zero-trust security systems for SATCOM in proliferated Low Earth Orbit, or pLEO. SpiderOak’s OrbitSecure solution will be combined with ...

Intellian Technologies Inc. has unveiled their ARC-M4 Block 1 terminal that provides simultaneous X- and military Ka-bands, plus all commercial Ka-, and this Block 1 marks the next extension of Intellian’s Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) certified products. WGS is a ...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT), a provider of satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced that its U.S.-based Wavestream subsidiary is launching “Endurance,” a new line of high-power, “always-on” solid state power amplifier (SSPA) products. Wavestream’s Endurance ...

Blacktree Technology UHF satcom antenna systems atop the Citadel in London Airbus Defence and Space has selected Blacktree Technology Pty Ltd of Perth, Australia, to provide the ground segment for the Airbus funded UHF military communications hosted payload on-board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by ...

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific personnel successfully completed a cross-banding demo that successfully connected legacy 5 kHz Ultra High Frequency (UHF) military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) channel operators with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) modern Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ...

As of last month, the Space Development Agency’s resilient layered network of military satellites and supporting elements is now the “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture” or PWSA This architecture, formerly known as the “National Defense Space Architecture,” was renamed to more ...

The demonstrated high-performance solution leverages phased-array antenna and ultra-fast-roaming capabilities between satellites to support critical manned and unmanned C2/ISR government missions SES, ThinKom and Hughes have successfully demo'd high-performance, multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions ...

GIT Satellite Communications (GIT) has become an Iridium Certus® service provider and will support U.S. government customers with hardware platforms, airtime and data services. A long-time Iridium® government service provider for narrowband voice and data services, GIT has now expanded ...

Airbus has signed a contract with the Belgian Ministry of Defence to provide tactical satellite communications services for a 15 year period. The Armed Forces will use channels of the Airbus UHF (Ultra High Frequency) military communications hosted payload on-board ...

General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper RPA General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has completed a fully-networked demonstration using multiple Laser Communication terminals. General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian The network included ground, mobile and airborne terminals. During the demonstration, a live video and audio ...

Raytheon BBN, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, recently showcased their Robust Information Provisioning Layer, or RIPL, solution during an Air Force Research Laboratory exercise at their Stockbridge Test Site in Rome, New York. During the exercise, Raytheon BBN’s RIPL system ...

A U.S. solider uses a communication terminal during network evaluation event in White Sands, NM. Boeing’s PTS-P recently proved it can allow U.S. and allied forces to maintain connectivity in contested environments by autonomously re-shaping beams to null adversary jamming ...

The Australian Government's Commonwealth’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) has selected EM Solutions to carry out Introduction into Service and Support Services for the Royal Australian Navy’s existing fleet of Cobra Maritime Satellite Communications (SATCOM) terminals for a period ...

A milestone has occurred for the Spectra Group — the company is celebrating having delivered more than 7,000 SlingShot SATCOM systems to regular and specialist forces around the globe… all of which coincides with the firm's 20th Anniversary. Since its ...

Terran Orbital's first bus for the SDA's Tranche 0 Transport Layer delivered to Lockheed Martin. Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered the first of ten satellite buses to Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 ...

UltiSat to offer Cobham Satcom tracking systems to provide U.S. and NATO defense organizations enhanced SATCOM capabilities. Cobham Satcom, provider of land and maritime satellite communications solutions to the Government and Enterprise sectors, and UltiSat, Inc., a provider of end-to-end ...