Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 02-24-09] The broadband stimulus bill included in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is having a variety of effects on several sectors of the commercial satellite industry...

[Satellite News 02-20-09] Pierre Parent, vice president and general manager of Numerex Satellite Solutions, is working on developing a hybrid satellite and radio frequency identification (RFID) system for the commercial...

[Satellite News 02-19-09] Integral Systems CEO John Higginbotham believes the collision of an Iridium commercial satellite with a defunct Russian military satellite on Feb. 10 was an event that will...

[Satellite News 02-17-09] Liberty Media Corp. signed a last-minute agreement to loan Sirius XM Radio the funding it needs to avoid bankruptcy, beating EchoStar to a deal it had been...

ViaSat Inc. and the U.S. Army extended the vehicular Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) demonstration with U.S. Army Aviation BFT2 demonstrations aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.     ViaSat’s ArcLight BFT2...

A team led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman sent its SpaceWire data bus technology for preliminary design review.     The development marks a milestone in the risk reduction phase...

Proactive Communications Inc. (PCI) signed a $2 million contract negotiation with Australian-based operator NewSat to provide a unified communications solution to customers in Afghanistan.     The three-year deal will expand...

Vizada won a contract with Delta Wave Communications to supply the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers with Inmarsat and Iridium mobile satellite communications services in the United States and overseas....

Boeing received a $75 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force to continue risk reduction and system definition for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT). The six-month contract extension...

ViaSat received a contract modification from the U.S. Army — through prime contractor Globecomm Systems Inc. — to modify the Joint-Internet Protocol Modem to enable it to operate as the...