Government/Military

[Via Satellite 02-18-2014] KVH Industries has received an order from Global Technical Systems (GTS) to support a 10-year Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Ultra Light Aircraft Detection (ULAD) platforms to be...

[Via Satellite 02-18-2014] STMicroelectronics has released its Teseo 2 single-chip satellite-tracking IC to the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) for testing for eCall...

[Via Satellite 02-12-2014] Providers of X-band services may find more staying power in military areas of operation. XTAR, an X-band satellite operator, has mentioned that the general downturn in satellite...

[Via Satellite 02-07-2014] TeleCommunication Systems has entered into a $6.8 million contract with the U.S. Army to provide maritime-stabilized VSAT satellite systems and associated engineering systems, a part of the...

[Via Satellite 01-31-2014] Raytheon reported high earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013, but reported lower-than-expected revenues due to the decline in U.S. military spending, an effect of the 2011...

[Via Satellite 01-31-2014] Inmarsat Government has announced that its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Software Defined Radio (SDR) waveform received Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliance certification from the Joint Tactical...

[Via Satellite 01-31-2014] Comtech Telecommunications announced that its subsidiary Comtech EF Data Corp. has been awarded a $3.1 million order from a government systems integrator for DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier powered DMD2050E...

[Via Satellite 01-30-2014] Galileo, the EU satellite navigation program, and Copernicus, the EU Earth monitoring program, will soon establish Europe’s own satellite navigation system. With the launch of six additional...

In January 2013, five companies — Eutelsat America, Intelsat General, Telesat, XTAR and SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) — submitted a white paper to the United States Department of Defense (DoD)...

Military strategies for procuring commercial satellite capabilities are designed to provide the best resources possible to the warfighter. This process is complicated, however, and requires expertise from both the commercial...