Government/Military
January 24, 2020
Intelligent Waves has been awarded a competitive, single award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The contract called Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Global Logistical Services Management Contract (ELOG) has a life-cycle value of $48 million and a 1-year base with 4-year options, the company announced Thursday. EMSS provides deployed warfighters…
January 24, 2020
Astroscale has been awarded a grant of up to $4.5 million from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Innovation Tokyo Project” to build a roadmap for commercializing active debris removal services. The project, which was launched last year, aims to subsidize up to half of the expenses required for the commercialization and development of innovative services and…
January 22, 2020
As government entities transition their operations to adopt the latest technological developments — including edge computing and cloud-based applications — they need to augment their existing networks with additional terminals and bandwidth, and add redundant communications paths to achieve the necessary flexibility, resilience, and redundancy. Providing terabit-level scale, delivering multi-gigabit links virtually anywhere on Earth,…
January 22, 2020
From analyzing firefighter’s health data, to communicating on the front lines in conflict zones, to managing a complex election process in land-locked Burkina Faso, satellites deliver the real-time data essential to government operations. In this episode of SES’ Satellite Stories we look at how connectivity from SES is being used by governments across the…