Lockheed Completes Design Review of Missile Defense Training System; Jim Quinn Comments
May 22, 2013 No Comment
A Lockheed Martin- Missile Defense National team has completed the preliminary design review of the command, control, battle management and communications’ upgraded training component that allows users to plan and oversee ballistic missile defense operations. The review ensured that the Lockheed Martin-led team is on schedule and that the upgrades will support the C2BMC’s existing operation [...]
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TCS Transportable Comm Equipment Certified by Army; Michael Bristol Comments
May 22, 2013 No Comment
TeleCommunication Systems has obtained approval from the U.S. Army’s spectrum management office for its tactical transportable equipment, which intends to connect joint users to global communication networks. TCS adds the Tactical Transportable Tropo system to its JF-12-certified Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point 1.2- and 2.0-meter Very Small Aperture Terminal [...]
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Exelis GPS Anti-Jam Tool Collects Intelligence for Law Enforcement; Kevin Farrell Comments
May 20, 2013 No Comment
An ITT Exelis system for tracking both intentional and unintentional GPS jamming sources has been upgraded to deliver interference intelligence for law enforcement officials to locate targets and protect infrastructure. Signal Sentry 1000 is designed to incorporate signal domain knowledge for a global navigation satellite system, according to an Exelis statement. The technology is based [...]
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Boeing has delivered the sixth wideband global satellite communications spacecraft to the Defense Department in preparation for its scheduled launch in 2013. The company shipped the WGS-6 satellite from its facility in El Segundo, Calif. to Titusville, Fla. and the spacecraft will be tested, fueled and integrated before its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Boeing [...]
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ITT Exelis Tests NOAA Weather Imager in Space-Like Conditions; Eric Webster Comments
May 17, 2013 No CommentITT Exelis has completed tests on an advanced baseline imager to be used for the new series of geostationary operational environmental satellites for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. During the test, the ABI was exposed to extreme cold and hot temperatures, mimicking space-like conditions, according to an Exelis statement. Exelis weather systems [...]
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Northrop European Subsidiary Builds Air Traffic Comm Technology for North Sea
May 17, 2013 No Comment
A Northrop Grumman Corp. subsidiary and U.K.-based NATS have collaborated to engineer an airspace communications technology designed to help improve air safety in the North Sea’s East Shetland Basin site which produces oil. Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems uses the Internet protocol network to connect its T6 radio installations from three sites to NATS’s control [...]
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Boeing‘s fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite launched Wednesday aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. GPS IIF is designed to address navigation and jamming issues as well as prolong the satellite’s design lifespan, according to a statement by Boeing’s defense, space and security business. The [...]
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DRS Technologies has received a certificate from the Defense Department that allows users of the company’s mobile on-the-move terminal to operate and access the agency’s communication satellites in the Global Information Grid. The company received its X-Band On-the-Move certification from the Army Strategic Command and Department of Defense’ Joint SATCOM Engineering Center, DRS said Wednesday. [...]
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