Boeing Demonstrates Integrated Voice, Data and Video Services with TSAT Tests

Boeing Co. has demonstrated that its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) can provide warfighters with rapid access to integrated voice, data and video services, the company announced June 6.

Dubbed NGPR-2, the tests were the second in a series for the advanced processor router. Working under a $514 million U.S. Air Force contract for the risk reduction and system definition phase of the TSAT Space Segment program, Boeing’s TSAT team has reported completing on time all 37 of its government- defined demonstrations to date.

Boeing’s TSAT team includes Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, General Dynamics, IBM, L-3 Communications, Cisco Systems, BBN Technologies, Hughes, LGS Innovations, Harris, EMS Technologies, ICE and Alpha Informatics.