Focus: Military

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received $3 million in contract awards for design and build of two Ku-Band Earth stations for an unnamed customer. Kratos will deliver two Ku-band […]

DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, received a renewal award for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Global EGD provides U.S. government […]

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions (CMS) business division received orders worth more than $55 million to deliver its inflatable satellite communication and networking systems to the U.S. Army. These orders will satisfy […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions demonstrated successful performance on the second phase of a pathfinder study for migrating the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) ground system to the Enterprise […]

Honeywell introduced new services for commercial and defense aerospace manufacturers, allowing them to utilize its Engineering Services and Testing Services groups to help bring products to market. Honeywell Engineering Services will […]

The U.S. Air Force declared that the second Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System GPS III satellite is complete, fully tested, and ready to launch. The Air Force’s Available for Launch declaration is the […]

SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, and a provider of satellite and spacecraft systems will help define next-generation protected communications for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. SSL […]

Comtech Telecommunications‘ Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary Comtech EF Data received a delivery order in support of a recently awarded contract to provide long-term support for the Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Interface […]

Lockheed Martin has shipped the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for an October liftoff […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced today that its subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, was awarded option period one of a contract to support the U.S. Army’s Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Blue […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corporation announced today that its subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, has received a follow-on contract from a U.S. military integrator for high-power satellite communication Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs). […]

Cloud Constellation Corporation and Arabsat have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop a go-to-market strategy for enterprise and government customers in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and […]

SpaceX has secured a $130 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force for launch services to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite using it’s Falcon Heavy rocket. […]

President Trump announced June 18 that he has told the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to start forming a space force to ensure U.S. space dominance, but a key lawmaker […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will develop a proof of concept system to enable satellite communication roaming capability for the U.S. government, under a $2.6 million contract. The system will […]

General Dynamics Mission Systems has received a contract from the U.S. Navy to restore and maintain a satellite system simulator for students at the Naval Postgraduate School, Spacecraft Research and Design […]

Viasat has acquired Horsebridge Defence and Security, a U.K.-based company focused on design, system integration and support of deployable secure networks. Through this acquisition, the Viasat U.K. group gains deeper military communications integration […]

A Northrop Grumman payload will provide highly protected communications for warfighters under a new $429 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. The company was awarded a $429 million contract […]

The U.S. Marine Corps is set to become the first service to widely deploy the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communication capability for the battlefield as it looks to […]

Harris Corporation has provided Lockheed Martin with its fifth of 10 advanced navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force GPS III satellite program. The GPS III navigation payload features […]

SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, has signed a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for Medium Earth Orbit […]

It is said that history repeats itself, but could this be true of rockets launched from high-altitude balloons (aka rocoons)? Used in the 1950s Air Force program Farside, could rockoons […]

Comtech Telecommunications has announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2018, its command and control technologies group, part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, received orders totaling in excess of […]

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) and CoVant Management have acquired military satellite communications prime contractor LinQuest Corporation.The company’s management, including CEO Leon Biederman, will retain a significant minority ownership position in […]

Base Camp Connect will now be a partner for selling and integrating Redcom Laboratories communications systems in the Canadian government sector and to the Canadian National Defence, the tactical edge […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ Defense and Rocket Support Services Division was awarded the Aerial Target Systems 2 (ATS-2), Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. This is a […]

Orbit Communications Systems, a provider of precision tracking-based communications solutions and airborne communications management systems, has announced that it intends to unveil its new 12-inch Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT 30) for […]

UrtheCast has announced that its Earth observation subsidiary Deimos Imaging has entered into a contract with the Brazilian Ministry of Defense’s Aeronautics Command (COMAER) exceeding $2.6 million. The contract requires […]

Microsoft and Kymeta have announced simultaneous land mobile, maritime defense and first responder demonstrations during the 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) and Connectivity Expo (Connect X) from May […]

Cloud Constellation Corporation and Assured Communications Advisors International (ACAI) have entered into a reseller agreement to deliver Cloud Constellation’s SpaceBelt Data Security as a Service (DSaaS), focusing on government and […]