Boeing, Iridium Complete U.S. Navy GPS System Upgrades
Iridium Satellite and Boeing achieved two milestones in coordinated efforts to develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to a high-integrity GPS program for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
For the first milestone, the companies completed an enhanced narrowband software modification to computers on Iridium satellites, enabling second-generation GPS-aiding signals to be broadcast through the entire Iridium constellation. These signals aim to provide equipped warfighters with improved capabilities for quickly locking on and maintaining a GPS signal, even while operating in restrictive environments or under enemy jamming attempts or amid battlefield radio frequency noise.
The second milestone was a demonstration of the acquisition of a GPS signal under substantial jamming while moving in a vehicle.
The team, which includes Rockwell Collins and Coherent Navigation, will support a system-level demonstration later this year.
FMS, Iridium Win U.S. Homeland SecurityTracking Systems Order
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Detention and Removal has selected Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) and Iridium Satellite to supply vehicle tracking and mobile resource management systems for deployment under an initiative to optimize efficiency.
The Department of Homeland Security will install GPS tracking systems, which transmits position, direction and speed and other telematic data for user-specified events and reporting from its vehicles. The tracking equipment and hosted Web software will aim to improve asset readiness, enhance mission effectiveness, reduce fleet costs and coordinate compliance with U.S. federal property management regulations.
Financial details of the order were not disclosed.
Harris Awarded DISA MNIS Contract Worth Up to $27 Million
The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded Harris Corp. with a potential five-year, $27 million contract to provide network and systems engineering to support DISA’s Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) program management office.
Harris will act as sole subcontractor to EDS, an HP company, on the MNIS system engineering and technical assistance contract, which was awarded under the Encore 2 order announced earlier this year. The Encore 2 contract has a one-year base period with four, one-year options.
Under this recent contract, Harris will provide network and system engineering, program management, acquisition, configuration management and strategic planning support. MNIS aims to ensure seamless information sharing among U.S. forces and their allied and coalition partners.
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