Government/Military

[Via Satellite 09-26-13] Raytheon Company has delivered its 2,000th Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receiver (MAGR) 2000. Three variants of the MAGR 2000 family of products are currently in service aboard 20...

[Via Satellite 09-25-13] Lockheed Martin submitted its competitive proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) initiative aimed at leveraging commercial satellites for some government missions. According to...

[Via Satellite 09-19-13] DARPA has established the Experimental Spaceplane (XS 1) program to develop a fully reusable unmanned vehicle that would provide aircraft-like access to space. The vehicle is envisioned...

[Via Satellite 09-19-13] Boeing has transmitted a government-developed, frequency-hopping signal through a commercial satellite, demonstrating the potential for the military to access more communications pathways at a lower cost than...

[Via Satellite 09-18-13] SES and KVH Industries have signed an expanded capacity agreement to provide connectivity to luxury, government and commercial ships across the Caribbean and beyond. The deal will...

[Via Satellite 09-13-13] Exelis has revealed a system to allow continued communications in a heavily jammed battlefield environment. The small, lightweight Integrated Protection and Transmission System (iProTxS) can be integrated...

[Via Satellite 09-11-13] Governments and militaries in more than a dozen countries around the world have successfully trialed or are currently evaluating Inmarsat’s recently launched L-TAC service for communications-on-the-move. Militaries...

[Via Satellite 09-09-13] Raytheon is moving forward with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the agency’s Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program, whose software could enable ground troops...

[Via Satellite 09-09-13] Hughes Network Systems, a provider of broadband satellite solutions and services, has advanced in rotary wing Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) SATCOM capabilities by successfully demonstrating data throughputs of up...

[Via Satellite 09-3-13] The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) recent loan of $105.4 million to Israeli satellite operator Spacecom is further evidence of the bank’s growing support...