Government/Military

The U.S. congressional super-committee created by the U.S. Budget Control Act could enact an additional $600 billion in defense cuts in order to meet its required 10-year $900 billion budget...

 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch its Tactical Satellite 4 (TacSat-4) Sept. 27 from the Alaska Aerospace Corp.’s Kodiak launch complex on an Orbital Sciences Minotaur-4 rocket. TacSat-4 is a Navy-led joint mission...

In February, the Pentagon’s Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate contracted Boeing to make recommendations about innovative and feasible acquisition alternatives and include ways to apply commercial satellite procurement practices to the...

[Satellite TODAY 09-13-11] Broadband satellite solutions and services provider Hughes Network Systems was awarded a contract extension from the U.S. Department of Defense to continue its current study of commercial...

[Satellite TODAY 09-09-11] Aerospace manufacturer ATK will relocate its corporate headquarters at the beginning of October to a larger facility in Arlington, Va., the company announced Sept. 8.    The...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-08-11] NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) issued a five-year, $450 million contract to Honeywell to provide Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO) services for the agency’s...

[Satellite TODAY 09-08-11] Belgium’s Sea & Space Exploration has leased Ku-band capacity on Telesat’s Telstar 11N satellite so that it can deliver advanced broadband services to its customers in remote...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-07-11] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) was the sole winner of a $139.8 million delivery order to provide Wireless Point to Point Link (WPPL) systems, field support engineers, associated...

[Satellite News 09-06-11] In February, the Pentagon’s Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate awarded a $900,000 contract to Boeing to explore ways to modify existing commercial satellite capabilities on Intelsat and...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-05-11] Boeing was awarded a $1.09 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to build its seventh Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-7) satellite at its manufacturing facility in...