WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded Raytheon Technologies a $625 million contract to produce nuclear-hardened satellite communications terminals. The 11-year contract, announced June 28, is for production of FAB-T terminals used to connect strategic bombers and reconnaissance aircraft with classified military communications satellites. This was a […]
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WASHINGTON — CesiumAstro, a startup that specializes in communications technologies for satellites and aircraft, won a U.S. Air Force contract to develop a phased array antenna for remotely piloted drones. The $3.6 million two-year agreement is a so-called Tactical Funding Increase where the government and private investors split the cost […]
In brief: The four-year contract is part of the DEUCSI (Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet) program run by the Air Force Research Laboratory. It’s a project to demonstrate the integration of commercial space internet services with military platforms and weapon systems. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract worth $80.8 million to conduct communications experiments using multiple commercial space internet services. Under a program called Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI), AFRL is working with defense contractors and commercial satcom providers to figure out […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force in its 2024 budget allocated $59 million to buy satellite communications services from SES’ new broadband constellation in medium Earth orbit known as O3b mPower. The purchase was made under a NATO contracting vehicle established last year for countries to acquire commercial satcom services. […]
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin was selected as the “preferred bidder” for a multibillion-dollar Australian military project to build military communications satellites and supporting infrastructure. The Australian Defence Force on April 3 announced Lockheed Martin as the preferred bidder. This means the company is not actually receiving a contract award but […]
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Feb. 23 it had secured a new standardized 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) modem that enables direct smartphone-satellite communications in locations where there is no cellular network connectivity. Samsung plans to integrate this modem into its own Exynos chip, which is used in many Samsung smartphones, except […]
WASHINGTON – Astranis Space Technologies won a $4.5 million contract to integrate a U.S. military communications waveform on one of the company’s satellite communications payloads, the company announced Feb. 14 Under a two-year Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 contract awarded by the U.S. Space Force, Astranis will integrate the […]