Boeing [NYSE:BA] is teaming with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to develop laser technologies that will be used for satellite communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing and Ball Aerospace will jointly market laser communications technology as merchant suppliers to the U.S. government and its suppliers.

“As the need continues to grow for the rapid transmission of increasingly larger amounts of information, satellite-based laser communications is vital,” said Roger Roberts, senior vice president of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems (S&IS), Boeing’s center for intelligence programs. “Near-immediate access to information … is critical, and laser communication technologies are capable of addressing that need,” Roberts added.

Ball Aerospace, a subsidiary of Ball Corp. [NYSE: BLL], provides remote sensing systems to the aerospace and defense markets.