On the final day of Global MilSatCom, a number of key speakers from Ministry of Defenses (MODs) and armed forces around the world spoke of their visions regarding milsatcom moving forward. The key theme was that many countries now have a new vision for defense, so speakers elaborated on how satellite plays a role in…

Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, was awarded a $2 million contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating a next-generation optical telescope system for small satellite constellations. Radiant Solutions is partnered on this program with SSL, Maxar's spacecraft manufacturing business. The satellite telescope…

Hughes Network Systems was selected by the U.S. Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) to provide satcom systems integration for the U.S. Coast Guard. Under the agreement, Hughes, supporting through its partner, ADS, will integrate communications systems in support of the Coast Guard's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions requiring airborne…

The French Joint Directorate for Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems (DIRISI) selected Orange Business Services and Telespazio France to provide several satellite communication capabilities and the associated managed services to all military and state entities involved in this framework agreement. These services will facilitate communications when armed forces are involved in field missions, where end-to-end…