Focus: Military

Loft Federal and Microsoft will join Ball Aerospace to work on its Space Development Agency (SDA) contract for the experimental testbed NExT for 10 satellites.  SDA awarded Ball Aerospace the...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) saw the successful first launch for its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation this weekend. This was a highly anticipated launch as Tranche 0 demonstrates the...

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on March 8 that it demonstrated ground-based anti-jamming satellite communications via a Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) connection between a Protected Tactical Enterprise...

The U.S. Space Force has awarded MicroGEO satellite company Astranis a contract worth up to $10.5 million to implement a government waveform into its payload. The deal could be a...

CACI has signed an R&D agreement with the U.S. Army to develop advanced payload technologies, space sensor applications, and resilient Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT). The agreement is a five-year...

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has awarded Viasat a contract for managed satcom service. Viasat announced the award Jan. 24.  The contract comes after a pilot and follow-on service...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has renamed its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, or PWSA.  SDA announced the change on Monday, changing the name...

Slingshot Aerospace awarded HawkEye 360 a contract for radio frequency (RF) data to support a Slingshot program for the U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command (SSC). Slingshot supports SSC with...

Raytheon Technologies’ Intelligence & Space and Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems — both in El Segundo, California — are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium-Earth Orbit...

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) awarded Viasat a $325 million contract extension for tactical satellite communications and network management.  It is a sole-source, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award...