Government/Military

[Via Satellite 04-15-2015] Norsat International has received an purchasing order from the U.S. Defense Media Activity (DMA) for its GLOBETrekkerTM 2.0 portable satellite terminals, along with its 50W Atom series […]

[Via Satellite 04-10-2015] The United States Strategic Command’s (U.S. Stratcom) Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) is planning to bring in a body of commercial satellite industry officials in the coming […]

Denmark is a relatively small country in Europe with a population of less than 6 million people. However, over the last 20 years, it has seen its demands for satellite […]

[Via Satellite 04-08-2015] NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Academic Affairs Office in in Huntsville, Ala. is hosting the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event on April 10 and April 11. […]

[Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Data Path has received a $6.8-million, firm, fixed-price contract through a sole source acquisition to provide Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) supplies to Denmark. Under the contract, the […]

[Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Comtech Mobile Datacom, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, received a $19.8 million sustainment contract to support the U.S. Army‘s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below – […]

[Via Satellite 04-06-2015] The Australian government hopes to expedite progress on a military satcom (milsatcom) project that would enable greater use of the United States Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system […]

[Via Satellite 04-06-2015] The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) is in the midst of an evolution. The alliance of 28-nations is pivoting not only in how it operates, but also […]

[Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Ball Aerospace’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) has completed its Critical Design Review (CDR). The instrument is manifested on the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s (KARI’s) GEO-Kompsat 2B […]

[Via Satellite 04-06-2015] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has appointed M. Annadurai as director of the ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC) as of April 1, 2015. Prior to this role, […]

[Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is preparing for what it expects to be a hotly debated series of issues at the upcoming World Radiocommunications Conference 2015 (WRC-15) […]

[Via Satellite 04-03-2015] Rockwell Collins is launching a new military communications ground-air network that provides advanced interoperable communications for warfighters. Dubbed TruNet, the system uses Rockwell Collins’ Airborne Radio (AR) […]

[Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) signed a contract amendment for on-going support of the International Space Station’s (ISS) mobile servicing system. […]

[Via Satellite 04-01-2015] Airbus Defence and Space and Spectra Group have teamed up to extend government tactical radio reach Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) using satcom from Inmarsat. The service […]

[Via Satellite 03-31-2015] Harris Corporation has received orders from two countries in the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) for Falcon radios for secure military communications. One nation is acquiring $16 […]

[Via Satellite 03-31-2015] XipLink and SES Government Solutions (SES GS) have teamed up to deploy advanced acceleration and optimization technology for the U.S. government at a lower cost per bit. […]

[Via Satellite 03-25-2015] Communications & Power Industries (CPI) Malibu Division received a $2.5 million contact to build ground-based data links for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ (GA-ASI’s) Predator/MQ-9 Reaper drones. The […]

[Via Satellite 03-25-2015] Orbital ATK received a contract valued at up to $470 million to build the Joint Polar Satellite Systems 2 (JPSS 2) weather satellite, with options for two […]

[Via Satellite 03-24-2015] The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin broke ground at the future 6-acre site of the new Space Fence radar system in a special ceremony on Kwajalein […]

[Via Satellite 03-23-2015] The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has awarded Hughes Network Systems a two-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with two optional one-year extensions for data […]

[Via Satellite 03-20-2015] The United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has selected Harris Communications for a single award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a one-year base and […]

[Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Eutelsat announced the creation of a new division in the United Kingdom that will drive its strategy for serving providers of end-to-end government services, NGOs and institutional […]

[Via Satellite 03-16-2015] SES  Government Solutions hosted their second O3b satellite demonstration for more than 50 U.S. government customers at the SES Washington Media Port in Bristow, Va. SES is the first […]

[Via Satellite 03-13-2015] Lockheed Martin has revealed its proposed cargo resupply solution for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service 2 (CRS-2) contract. The solution uses a reusable space-servicing vehicle dubbed Jupiter based […]

[Via Satellite 03-13-2015] France’s Direction Générale de L’Armement (DGA) has selected Thales and Airbus Defence and Space to work together as co-prime contractors for a trio of military satellites. The […]

[Via Satellite 03-12-2015] The United States Air Force sees now as the opportune time to pursue more creative paths with future satellite designs. David Madden, director of the Military Satellite […]

[Via Satellite 03-11-2015] The United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) performs the critical work of establishing and managing commercial satellite communications (comsatcom) contracts for the Department of Defense (DOD). […]

[Via Satellite 03-10-2015] Inmarsat Government has announced a new agreement to make Honeywell the service provider to the U.S. government aeronautical market for the Global Xpress constellation network. Under the […]

[Via Satellite 03-09-2015] Boeing announced an equity stake in Softbank Satellite Planning Corp., a division of the Tokyo-based Softbank Group, to help create concepts for a national satellite-based disaster response […]

[Via Satellite 03-06-2015] Publishing the outcome of a 3-month spaceport consultation with a range of interested parties, the U.K. government confirmed widespread support for its plans. This paves the way […]