Editor's Note

Can the Milsatcom Market Recover?

Despite a slowdown in government spending, milsatcom remains a market of extremes. While it is clear governments around the world are looking for more creative solutions to fill their bandwidth needs, demands for bandwidth continues to increase. While the market is proving tough for all players across the value chain… READ MORE »

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Hosted Payload Players Optimistic About Security Challenges

As the satellite industry pushes to strengthen its ties with government customers, hosted payloads continue to arise as a good win-win business model for private-public partnerships – but there are challenges aplenty. At the “Protecting the Payload: Increased Use Calls for Increased Security” panel at the Hosted Payload Summit 2013 in Washington, D.C., industry experts… READ MORE »

Executive Q&A
Astrium Exec Talks 10 Year Learnings from Skynet Program In October 2003, in one of the major deals of its kind in the milsatcom space, the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) signed a multi-billion dollar contract with Paradigm Secure Communications to develop the Skynet 5 program, which now encompasses four dedicated milsatcom satellites. These satellites, which were financed… READ MORE »
Industry News
US Department of Defense Awards Iridium $400 Million Five-Year Contract The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded a $400 million, multi-year, fixed-price contract to Iridium Communications to provide satellite airtime services to meet the communications needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and their federal partners. This five-year contract renews… READ MORE »	L-3 GCS Receives First Military Band Type Approval for GX Terminals from Inmarsat L-3 Global Communications Solutions (L-3 GCS), a specialist in the supply of deployable satellite communications solutions and turnkey systems, has received type approval from Inmarsat for its range of military Ka-band terminals, authorizing their use over the Global Xpress (GX) network. This marks an important milestone… READ MORE »
US Air Force Extends SES’ Hosted Payload Contract The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a two-year contract extension to SES Government Solutions (SES-GS). The contract allows the Air Force to continue its research and development mission through the use of the Commercially Hosted… READ MORE »	Orbcomm, Savi Partner to Provide RFID Solution to US Army Orbcomm and Savi Technology, a provider of sensor-based analytics and radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions announced a strategic relationship to provide advanced location-based monitoring solutions to government and commercial markets… READ MORE »
Newtec, SniperHill Deploy New Satellite Technology for US Troops and NATO Satellite communications specialist Newtec and U.S. commercial Internet service provider SniperHill have deployed new satellite technology to provide increased throughput and service availability for Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) networks on U.S. and NATO bases in Afghanistan. The solution is enabling SniperHill… READ MORE »	Harris Selected for $4 Billion US CTS IDIQ Contract The U.S. Army has awarded the Communications and Transmission Systems (CTS) contract to Harris Corporation. The contract enables the company to compete for a wide range of communications systems and services projects supporting the ongoing upgrade and maintenance of the Army's terrestrial network infrastructure… READ MORE »

Editor's Note

Can the Milsatcom Market Recover?

Top Story

Hosted Payload Players Optimistic About Security Challenges

Executive Q&A

Astrium Exec Talks 10 Year Learnings from Skynet Program

Industry News

US Department of Defense Awards Iridium $400 Million Five-Year Contract

L-3 GCS Receives First Military Band Type Approval for GX Terminals from Inmarsat

US Air Force Extends SES’ Hosted Payload Contract

Orbcomm, Savi Partner to Provide RFID Solution to US Army

Newtec, SniperHill Deploy New Satellite Technology for US Troops and NATO

Harris Selected for $4 Billion US CTS IDIQ Contract

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