Government/Military
June 1, 2020
Accion Systems and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have reached a partnership to research and develop electrospray technology. The goal is to create high-efficiency systems capable of delivering significant total impulse for future small satellites. The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), announced Monday, was finalized in May 2020. This partnership will continue…
June 1, 2020
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a $7,304,322 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification to its contract for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) sensor sustainment. The DMSP has been collecting weather data for U.S. military operations for more than five decades and provides secure global weather and space weather data to support DOD.…
June 1, 2020
The Mission-Critical Technologies group of Comtech Telecommunications has been awarded $1.6 million in additional funding to its sustainment contract to provide ongoing sustainment services for the AN/TSC-198A SNAP (Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point), and baseband equipment. This additional funding, announced on Monday, came during the third quarter…
May 28, 2020
Comtech Telecommunications and its subsidiaries won two contracts to provide U.S. government and military satellite service, the company announced May 28. Comtech's Mission-Critical Technologies group was awarded a $12.5 million order from U.S.-based integrator Strategic Communications to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite terminals to support secure communications for an unnamed U.S. government end-user.…