Boeing will build the 11th U.S. Air Force Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-11) communications satellite. The company was awarded a not-to-exceed $605 million firm-fixed-price modification (P00109) to previously awarded contract FA8808-10-C-0001 for the production of the Wideband Global Satellite Communication Space Vehicle 11. Work will be performed in El Segundo, California, and is expected to be…

Iridium Communications was awarded a new contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to continue supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) gateway. The contract, valued at $54 million over 4.5 years, for Gateway Maintenance and Support Service (GMSS), will help ensure that this dedicated ground site continues to…

Canadian rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications entered into a contract with Hughes Network Systems, agreeing to a lifetime capacity agreement on the next-generation JUPITER3 Ultra High Density Satellite (UHDS), designated EchoStar XXIV. In a contract valued at more than $250 million over 15 years, the agreement is for approximately 50 Gbps of Ka-band capacity reaching more than…

Claro Argentina selected Comtech Telecommunications' Heights Networking Platform to connect rural communities throughout Argentina with high-speed 2G/3G and LTE backhaul. The Heights Networking Platform is a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) platform that combines Comtech EF Data’s waveforms, Heights Dynamic Network Access (H-DNA), header and payload compression engines, Wide-Area Network (WAN) and General Packet Radio…