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A Boeing communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force launched into space Friday and transmitted its first on-orbit signals to controllers in Australia within the first hour of liftoff. The fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite is intended to help the Air Force link troops to secure communications worldwide, Boeing said Friday. WGS-5 launched from Cape [...]
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General Electric‘s aviation business unit has agreed to provide Boeing satellite navigation technology for Boeing’s satellite communications systems. Boeing’s Ka-band phased-array SATCOM antenna system is used for airborne mobile communications, intending to help transport data between aircraft and ground stations, GE said Wednesday. GE Aviation will supply tactical inertial navigation units, designed to deliver constant [...]
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Lockheed Martin is developing an unmanned autonomous battlefield surveillance vehicle for the Army intended to be controlled via satellite. The Squad Mission Support System drone was controlled from more than 200 miles away during a recent demonstration at Camp Grayling, Mich., the company says. For the demonstration, SMSS contained a Gyrocam 9M tactical surveillance sensor [...]
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Boeing is developing software for a U.S. Air Force satellite communications program in an attempt to integrate ground and airborne terminals for U.S. nuclear forces command and control functions. The company said its team tested the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal software and evaluated integration with the Advanced Extremely High Frequency and Milstar mission control subsystem. AEHF and [...]
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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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Northrop Grumman will develop and demonstrate new satellite communications technologies for the U.S. Air Force under three 10-month contracts, the company announced Thursday. Goals of these projects include protecting SATCOM systems from interference and detection, said Stuart Linsky, vice president of communication systems in the aerospace systems sector. He added the growing threat environment includes [...]
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Raytheon has won a $51 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue building airborne radios and modernizing future radios for satellite communications, the company announced Tuesday. During phase three of the Mobile User Objective Service/Cryptographic Modernization upgrade program, the company will update software to complete design tasks and prepare for phase four qualification testing [...]
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An Australia-based Boeing subsidiary tested its new satellite communications system while on the move between Australia and U.S., the company announced Sunday. Boeing Defense Australia connected three sites in Australia and US using videoconferencing, radios and telephones over the bandwidth available on its Ka-band satellite network. The company wants the on the move system to [...]
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is working to help create a national communications network for first responders, Mark Rockwell writes on GSN magazine. Larry Strickling, NTIA’s assistant secretary for communications and information, spoke at the APCO Public Safety Broadband Summit in Washington on Tuesday. He indicated it will cost beyond the existing $7 billion and [...]
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The Defense Department’s research arm is set to have a proposer’s day May 3 to discuss a new free-floating satellite project, according to a Thursday post on FedBizOpps. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is holding the event to discuss its System F6 program, which will focus on developing satellites that can be re-configured. The [...]
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