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US Space Force awards L3Harris Technologies $500 Million IDIQ contract for anti-jam satellite modem
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
A3M provides the Department of the Air Force and Army with a secure, wideband, anti-jam satellite communications terminal modem for tactical satellite communica...
US Space Force pens $1B in contracts for unjammable modems
Apr 06, 2020 (Sputnik)
On Monday, the USSF's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) announced that L3Harris and Raytheon had each received $500 million contracts to develop Protected ...
AEHF-6 Satellite Actively Communicating With U.S. Space Force
Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)
The sixth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) satellite launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 4:18 p.m. ET. AE...
AEHF-6 satellite completes protected satellite constellation
Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)
The 4th Space Operations Squadron maintains and commands the protected satellite constellation and will fully integrate AEHF-6 into their family. "AEHF satellit...
Sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite ready for launch
Mar 26, 2020 (SPX)
The AEHF-6 satellite will bring additional capabilities and resilience to the constellation which already ensures "always-on" communications and the ability to ...
Lockheed Martin selects SEAKR Wolverine mission processor for Protected Tactical SATCOM
Mar 24, 2020 (SPX)
PTS is a next-generation capability connecting warfighters with more agile and jam-resistant SATCOM. The complete system will deploy a constellation of dedicate...
Army scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum
Mar 20, 2020 (SPX)
Such wide spectral coverage by a single antenna is impossible with a traditional receiver system, and would require multiple systems of individual antennas, amp...
Northrop Grumman awarded $48.2M for MUOS satellite systems for Navy
Mar 18, 2020 (UPI)
Under the contract the Navy will procure the MUOS for upgrade its ultra high frequency satellite communications systems. The MUOS is the Navy's next-generation ...
Space and Missile Systems Center's multi-manifest satellite vehicle ready for integration on AEHF-6 mission
Mar 17, 2020 (AFNS)
AEHF-6, slated for liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket, will mark the final satellite in the AEHF constellation, and the first launch for...
L3Harris nabs $383.2M to provide man pack radio systems for Marines
Mar 10, 2020 (UPI)
Under the contract, the Navy will purchase L3 Harris high frequency radio systems with National Security Agency certified Type 1 encryption, radio ancillaries, ...
Lockheed Martin's Most Advanced Mobile Communications Satellite Launches
Feb 19, 2020 (SPX)
JCSAT-17 is the first Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) communicationflics satellite built on the modernized LM 2100, which includes 26 innovations that make the s...
Space and Missile Systems Center awards Northrop Grumman $253.6 million for Protected Tactical SATCOM acquisition
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
This effort, in alignment with SMC delivering warfighting capability at E.P.I.C. Speed (Enterprise, Partnership, Innovation, Culture and Speed), uses the FY 201...
AEHF-5 Satellite Control Authority Transferred to Space Operations Command
Feb 13, 2020 (SPX)
After successful completion of AEHF-5 on-orbit testing, SMC transferred Satellite Control Authority to the SpOC with AEHF-5 now under the control of military op...
Improving 5G Network Security
Feb 10, 2020 (SPX)
Major advances in 5G, including new core network features will make it easier to customize the network at a wide variety of locations. This new flexibility offe...
NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Mission Leaves Goddard Space Flight Center
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
LCRD will be NASA's first end-to-end optical relay, sending and receiving data from missions in space to mission control on Earth. In the first image, you can s...
Protecting wideband RF systems in congested electromagnetic environments
Jan 23, 2020 (SPX)
A desire to support wideband EM spectrum operations also adds to the burden, as current approaches to mitigating wideband receiver interference are sub-optimal ...
US Army and Air Force team up for multi-domain operations
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
The December 2019 test marked the first time F-35s were used as sensors during an IBCS live fire test against multiple airborne targets. Linking F-35s to IBCS v...
General Dynamics receives $730M for next-gen satcom system
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
General Dynamics Mission Systems provides the integrated ground segments for MUOS, which will soon provide secure cell phone-like communications for warfighters...
Airbus' marks 50 years in Skynet secure satellite communications for UK
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
Skynet 1A was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 22 November 1969 into a geostationary orbit and it was followed less than a year later by Skynet 1B to pr...
Lockheed Martin gets $3.3B contract for communications satellite work
Nov 18, 2019 (UPI)
The Defense Department announced the 10-year contract on Friday. It calls for maintenance of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency program, used by the U.S. Air...
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