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EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] made a $1.029 billion offer Wednesday aimed at competing with Intelsat Ltd. for the purchase of Loral’s North American satellite assets. EchoStar also remains interested in...

BOSTON–Satellite communications will play a key role in the U.S. Army‘s Future Combat System (FCS), according to Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes. Byrnes, commanding general of the Army’s Training and Doctrine...

BOSTON–The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is scrutinizing the issue of whether the U.S. military’s plans to expand the use of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications could pose an interference problem...

A rower planning to travel across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans will be tracked by Global Positioning System capabilities. Satamatics Ltd., a U.K. operator of global satellite-based telematics information services,...

XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] has introduced the XMCommander, a XM receiver that works with any AM/FM car stereo. The Washington, D.C.-based company has selected antenna manufacturer Terk Technologies to...

Proxim Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based wireless network equipment provider, and Hughes Network Systems have signed an agreement for Proxim to provide its ORiNOCO access points to Hughes. Financial terms of...

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corp. will honor Boeing [NYSE: BA] employee Mona Simpson with a professional achievement award at its 15th Anniversary HENAAC Awards Show on Friday in...

Presented by PBI Media‘s Telecom Group The Telecom Marketing Awards are among the telecommunications industry’s most privileged honors, recognizing the best telecom marketing campaigns and programs of the past year....

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Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences will join forces to compete for a contract to build NASA’s Orbital Space Plane. Lockheed Martin will lead the...