Focus: North America

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $52.7 million modification (P0009) to contract FA8818-17-D-0001 for engineering, development and sustainment services supporting the U.S. Air Force Multi-Mission Satellite Operation Center. The contract is indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity,...

Autonomous vehicle software developer Imagry is debuting the latest version of its mapless platform at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES’19) Jan. 8-11. Imagery’s solution uses an approach that requires neither...

Swarm Technologies agreed to pay the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) $900 thousand over a period of five years, according to an order released Dec. 20. Swarm previously “engaged in...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was awarded a follow on Task Order (TO) by the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). Valued at about $17.3 million, it was...

The U.S. Army awarded Harris a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that deliver critical communications to warfighters around the world. The Wideband...

SpaceX postponed the Tuesday launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, which would carry the GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force. “SpaceX team called a hold due to an...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions revealed that its winning team, led by Space Vector,  received an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the U.S. Air Force’s Sounding Rocket Program-4 (SRP-4). The seven-year...

General Dynamics Mission Systems and a NASA team successfully completed the final laboratory System Acceptance Test (SAT) of NASA’s Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) project. The test took place at the...

Ball Aerospace and Technologies successfully completed development of an Earth science instrument to measure air pollution over North America, and has been formally accepted by NASA. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring...

We enter the new year with 2020 closely in sight — a period which could mark a profound turning point for U.S. government satellite communication acquisition and implementation. Riding the...