The U.S. Navy selected Viasat and Data Link Solutions (DLS) to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) terminals. MIDS JTRS terminals are line-of-sight, four-channel radio systems designed for secure broadband data and…

Satellite operator Iridium and manufacturer Lockheed Martin have joined several private industry groups in signing a petition asking the FCC  to reconsider its recent order to allow Ligado Networks to rezone and resell its L-Band satellite spectrum holdings for 5G terrestrial use. Other petitioners include: the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA); the Airline Pilots Association; the Association…

Roccor, a small satellite market hardware supplier, has created a deployable L-band antenna that it says makes the reception and transmission of Link 16 signals via spacecraft possible. This development, which Roccor announced Tuesday, is in partnership with Viasat, Inc., and the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, and is part of the first…

Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space has been contracted to provide Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation intelligence data to the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory's (SDL) Micro-Satellite Military Utility (MSMU) project in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). “Our satellites and our data will enhance defense capabilities when fused with other data sets…