Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 07-02-12] Hughes Network Systems has received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 1 validation for its Spaceway Crypto Kernel (HSCK) from the National Institute of Standards...

[Satellite TODAY 06-29-12] GeoEye has received a $111 million EnhancedView cost-share payment from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), GeoEye announced June 28 – just days after learning the NGA’s plans...

[Satellite TODAY 06-29-12] Com Dev has received a follow-on contract from Boeing Satellite Systems to supply filters, switches and ferrite components for use in NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-29-12] The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) program is at risk of running over its projected cost and schedule estimates, according to a report published June 28...

[Satellite TODAY 06-27-12] President Barack Obama has authorized the U.S. Export-Import Bank to extend a $125.9 million loan to Vietnam’s state-owned company Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) to buy...

[Satellite News 06-27-12] The 49 commercial satellite production programs and 419 individual communications satellites produced between 2012 and 2022 will be worth a combined $52.7 billion, according to a Forecast...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 06-26-12] The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has informed satellite imagery provider GeoEye that it will not renew the $3.5 billion EnhancedView contract it awarded the company,...

[Satellite TODAY 06-26-12] Canadian space and satellite company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been contracted by Israel Aerospace Industries to supply a communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite,...

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a task order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide consolidated logistics management support...

[Satellite TODAY 06-22-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has placed a new U.S. spy satellite launched into orbit on a security mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, ULA announced June...