Government/Military

Newtec has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide its FlexACM technology, supporting IP-trunking satellite links, to an unnamed government prime contractor in the United States, the company announced Aug....

Orbit Technologies has won a $19 million systems contract with an unnamed military customer, the company announced Aug. 4.     The contract will see Orbit supply the customer with Ku-band,...

General Dynamics awarded Lockheed Martin a $71 million contract to provide communications hardware and equipment for the transmission subsystem of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 program, Lockheed Martin...

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has extended its contract with MDA to provide surveillance operations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) supporting its forces deployed in Afghanistan, MDA announced July 27....

Remote asset tracking and information management solutions SkyBitz has opened a new business unit to provide remote asset management solutions based on technology developed for and financed by the U.S....

CapRock Government Solutions has hired William Janosky as director of its Information Assurance product division, the company announced July 27.     Janosky will be responsible for upgrading and implementing CapRock’s...

ITT Corp.’s GPS 3 navigation payload has passed a U.S. Air Force critical design review for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) in support of the GPS-3 program, the company announced...

Cisco’s Space-router technology has passed a U.S. Department of Defense satellite-orbit test for use of next-generation satellite-based IP services and communications from space, the company announced July 20.     The...

Inmarsat’s decision to invest $1.2 billion in three Ka-band satellites is another endorsement for the potential of Ka-band satellites and the market’s potential to expand beyond simply providing faster Internet...

[Satellite TODAY 08-16-10] The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) at Utah State University received a contract to provide support for NASA‘s Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Mission, the SDL announced...