Jeffrey Hill

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist Track24 has unveiled a new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) solution, the company announced July 5.    The SCC Titan solution […]

 L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force, the company announced July 6.    […]

 VSAT terminal solutions supplier Skyware Global is entering the tactical satellite market via the establishment of its new Tactical Ground Systems (TGS) business unit, the company announced.    Skyware said the division […]

 Canadian satellite information solutions company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been awarded a contract extension from the Australian Defense Force (ADF) to continue providing its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities.             MDA announced […]

 NewSat signed $2.35 million in new contracts during May and June to provide satellite communication services to Australian Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, the company announced July 7.    […]

 The U.S. Air Force Space Command has named Apogee Engineering a prime contractor to provide engineering and communications support services for the U.S. GPS operations center in Colorado Springs, Colo., the Air Force announced […]

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received $12.8 million in funding from the U.S. Army for equipment and field services to support of Secret IP Router and Non-secure IP Router Access Point (SNAP) VSAT satellite […]

The U.S. Navy awarded a $51.6 million contract to Raytheon to provide logistics support for the Navy’s Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program (NESP) communication terminals, Raytheon announced June 16.     The performance-based logistics contract […]

Honeywell has put forth its offer to acquire wireless product developer EMS Technologies for about $491 million in cash in an effort to expand its presence into the mobile and satellite communication industries. The […]

When we last spoke with Inmarsat’s Senior Vice President of Government Policy, Strategy, and Outreach Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, the company’s concerns over Ka-band terminal technology falling behind the capability of the […]

The U.S. House of Representatives is making alterations to the U.S. Air Force budget in a defense spending bill that is expected to reduce the budget for the GPS space and ground […]

[Satellite News 07-12-11] Despite the Chinese government’s recent vocal opposition to the militarization of space, a U.K. Journal of Strategic Studies report leaked July 12 claims that the country is […]

[Satellite News 07-11-11] In January 2011, News Corp.’s U.K. wing News International proposed spinning off Sky News into a separate publicly-traded company as a concession for its proposed acquisition of […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-11-11] U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Sean Lane approved Dish Network’s $1.375 billion “stalking horse” auction bid to acquire TerreStar Networks, the companies confirmed July 8.    The […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] EMS Technologies’ Defense and Space subsidiary has won a contract with Thales Alenia Space to provide Ka-band redundant low noise amplifier (RLNA) switching hardware to support Europe’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] The Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS GEO-1 missile warning satellite has delivered its first infrared imagery to its U.S. Air Force ground station, the manufacturer announced July 8.    […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] German space company DEV Systemtechnik has expanded its North American presence with the formation of a U.S. subsidiary, DEV America, the company announced July 8.    DEV […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-11] Globecomm Systems has recently completed the transition and expansion of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-08-11] ATIS’ Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released its CDN Interconnection Use Case Specification and High Level Requirements standards document, which ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] Mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions provider Stratos Global has added the Inmarsat XpressLink managed global broadband service to its maritime portfolio, Stratos announced July 7.    […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] NewSat signed $2.35 million in new contracts during May and June to provide satellite communication services to Australian Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] Wholesale integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network operator LightSquared has taken another step to resolve its GPS interference issued by establishing the Empower Rural America Initiative, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] Ico Global Communications has added several key members to its senior management team, the company announced July 6.     Clearwire Co-Founder Robert Mechaley has been appointed chief scientist […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-07-11] AT&T Corp. and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) are objecting to Dish Network’s auction purchase of bankrupt satellite company TerreStar Network, according to court papers the two companies […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Raytheon has been awarded the first competitive Public Safety LTE contract issued in the United States, as well as the first contract under the U.S. Broadband Technology […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Integral Systems Europe (ISE) has completed the delivery and installation of a carrier monitoring, signal analysis and RF interference detection system for Italian network operator Mediaset Group, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Geospatial information services provider GeoEye signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Lockheed Martin has completed a System Design Review (SDR) on-schedule for the GPS 3B satellite increment under the U.S. Air Force‘s next generation GPS 3 program, the […]

[Satellite News 07-07-11] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is taking a stab at in-space satellite repair and refueling by demonstrating the abilities of Dextre — its contributed service robot onboard […]