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Hughes Network Systems has won an order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide satellite broadband services for the agency’s radiation monitoring program. The company said the EPA ordered 12 months of service for 50 sites to help monitor radiation levels of air, drinking water, pasteurized milk and precipitation across the U.S. Tony Bardo, [...]
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General Dynamics has won a $19,189,504 contract modification to provide the U.S. Navy 76 mission computers for the branch’s F/A-18E/F and E/A-18G aircraft fleet, both made by Boeing. The Defense Department said the company’s advanced information systems unit will perform 80 percent of the work in Bloomington, Minn. and the rest in Albuquerque, N.M. through [...]
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Northrop Grumman and an EADS subsidiary are working together to develop a new unmanned aerial vehicle that Northrop says is based on its Global Hawk drone. The company said the EuroHawk drone flew its first test flight Friday for six hours and reached a maximum 54,000-foot altitude. EuroHawks contain signals intelligence sensors, built by EADS’ Cassidian subsidiary [...]
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Lockheed Martin delivered 30 F-35 aircraft in 2012, according to a company statement. “In 2013 as we begin flight test of the Block 2B mission system software which will ultimately provide the initial war-fighting capability the Marines need for their initial operational capability,” said Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed F-35 executive vice president and general manager. The 30 aircraft delivered in [...]
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Boeing Co.‘s subsidiary, Argon ST, has been awarded a $46 million contract option by the U.S. Navy to facilitate increased data collection and to better identify potential threats with the delivery of situational awareness systems. According to a Washington Technology article, Argon is expected to build seven more systems in an 18-month period, adding to the over [...]
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ITT Exelis has announced a new platform aimed at using traffic and surveillance cameras already in use to to collect weather information in real-time. The company said Helios is intended to integrate cameras that watch traffic, facility security and railroad assets. Eric Webster, vice president of weather systems for Exelis’ geospatial systems unit, said the [...]
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A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. team has reviewed the design of a weather monitoring satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said it reviewed the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft before more than 100 representatives from the agencies and instrument providers for the JPSS-1 spacecraft. Completing the review means the [...]
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Lockheed Martin has built a software waveform for a U.S. Navy-run satellite communications system aimed at helping remote and mobile users exchange voice, video and data. The company said it built the commercial waveform to work with the Mobile User Objective System, for which the company is contracted to build five satellites and a ground control [...]
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Raytheon provided the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration two backup facilities for satellite operations before Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, the company said Tuesday. The company deployed the Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System facilities with the goal of providing meteorologists, emergency response teams and other stakeholders weather information during the storm. Bill [...]
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Lockheed Martin has delivered the core structure of a weather forecasting satellite to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for propulsion system integration work, the company said Monday. The company’s space systems unit designed the structure for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R Series, aimed at enclosing the satellite’s propulsion system and supporting the [...]
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