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Boosted by a growing demand for new air-ground communications and supported by a global satellite marketing strategy, Annapolis, Md.-based ARINC emerged in 2003 as the world’s leading provider of aeronautical...

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has delivered a prototype integrated air and space command and control (C2) capability to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Strategic Command taking the first step...

U.S.-based SeaDigital has formed an alliance with Telenor Satellite Services to market an integrated calling card solution for the maritime industry. The SeaDigital ONE Card will provide seafarers with worldwide...

London-based LogicaCMG [LSE: LOG] has won contracts worth 7.5 million euros ($9.3 million) from the European Space Agency (ESA) to design two sets of ground facilities for the Galileo navigation...

Alcatel Space has been selected to be the prime contractor on the European Union’s Maestro (mobile applications and services based on satellite and terrestrial internetworking) research and development project. The...

Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has selected Northrop Grumman [NYSE: NOC] as a teammate in the competition to develop the space-based radar (SBR) system for the U.S. Air Force....

Verestar, a Fairfax, Va.-based provider of managed network solutions via satellite and fiber, has reached an agreement in principle to sell substantially all of its assets to SkyTerra Communications. Under...

Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) [Nasdaq: UEIC] has agreed to supply its new remote control platform to France’s La Television Par Satellite (TPS) to control TPS customers’ set-top satellite television receivers...

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe has entered into an agreement with Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Native Communities Development Corp. (NCDC) to provide high- resolution satellite imagery for integration with NCDC’s remote sensing, geographic...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ (MDA) MD Robotics subsidiary has been awarded an additional C$2.3 million (US$1.7 million) contract by Boeing [NYSE: BA] to provide elements for the Orbital Express program,...