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.…

Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space has been contracted to provide Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation intelligence data to the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory's (SDL) Micro-Satellite Military Utility (MSMU) project in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). “Our satellites and our data will enhance defense capabilities when fused with other data sets…

The U.S. Department of Commerce released new regulations on Tuesday that are intended to improve the licensing process for private U.S. satellite remote sensing operations, in order to increase openness and transparency.  The Department said the new regulations will eliminate most restrictions on how licensed remote sensing systems may be operated, such as limits on…

Regulus Cyber, which offers cyber security for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), has raised $4 million in a future Series B Round. In a Monday announcement, the Israeli-based company said the funds will be used to enhance R&D and sales efforts around supporting the recent U.S. executive order that emphasized the protection of positioning, navigation,…