A view of Globalstar offices. Photo credit: Globalstar

Globalstar has a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army to assess the company’s devices for low probability of intercept and detection communications. 

Globalstar said the primary focus of the CRADA is to assess its ultra low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) devices, which have built-in support for satellite connectivity and are designed to operate in environments where traditional communications are limited or unavailable. 

“The dynamic nature of the OTA [over-the-air] messaging structure enables our devices to function with inherent low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) and low-probability-of-detection (LPD) capabilities,” the company explained. This has implications for covert sensing, unmanned systems, congested logistics tracking, and tagging/tracking/locating applications.

“This collaboration reflects our growing engagement with defense and federal partners,” said Globalstar CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs. “We’re proud to bring our decades of satellite expertise and emerging terrestrial innovation to support the Army’s evaluation of next-generation satellite capabilities.”

This comes after Globalstar recently added two-way satellite IoT connectivity to its offerings.