Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have completed all flight tests required for the company to deliver the first KC-46 tanker aircraft to the service branch in October. The aircraft’s military type and receiver certification tests with the KC-135, F-16 and C-17 aircraft platforms concluded last week, Boeing said Friday. KC-46 receiver testing activity kicked off in […] More

The National Defense Industrial Association hosted a meeting on Nov. 14 to allow representatives from companies to present their commercial off-the-shelf technology platforms to Will Roper, director of the Defense Department’s strategic capabilities office, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes executives from Allegheny Technologies, Battelle, Creative Micro Systems, Endeavor Robotics, General Atomics, […] More

Tesat has demonstrated the interoperability of its Optical Communication Terminals for use on the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites Lockheed Martin is developing for the Space Development Agency. During a recent ground interoperability testing, the OCTs were able to create and maintain data communication link with a reference modem and then with a third-party optical terminal.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will bring together government, industry, academia and international stakeholders through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium to facilitate technical discussions and develop interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure and related technologies. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will oversee LOGIC to help establish an independent, permanent forum that will serve as a venue for various stakeholders to collaborate in support of the lunar community.

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Finding ways to combine the benefits of low-Earth orbit and geostationary orbit satellites to provide commercial users around the world with seamless services is one of the areas of opportunity in the satellite industry, said Dave Wajsgras, CEO of Intelsat. Intelsat is investing in virtualization and 5G and software-defined networks to meet the demand for […] More

Finding ways to combine the benefits of low-Earth orbit and geostationary orbit satellites to provide commercial users around the world with seamless services is one of the areas of opportunity in the satellite industry, said Dave Wajsgras, CEO of Intelsat. Intelsat is investing in virtualization and 5G and software-defined networks to meet the demand for communications in the battlefield, rural areas and other emerging markets, he went on to explain in an interview. More

U.S. government officials in the space arena are laser-focused on establishing and maintaining high-bandwidth, low-latency communications between satellite systems. These lines of communication are sent between ground stations and satellites in low-Earth orbit at about 1,000 km distance from the Earth and even as far as geostationary orbit, at about 35,700 km distance from the […] More

Leading U.S. space experts at ExecutiveBiz's Space Technologies Forum on Tuesday discussed whether the recent National Reconnaissance Office request for information with a 90-minute to 500-millisecond parameter on allowance for latency in satellite communications was acceptable or too lenient.If technology-centric dialogues such as these appeal to you and especially if you’re part of the GovCon industry, register today for ExecutiveBiz’s upcoming Trusted AI and Autonomy Forum, scheduled for Sept. 12 at Falls Church, Virginia’s 2941 Restaurant. Register here. More

Leading U.S. space experts at ExecutiveBiz's Space Technologies Forum on Tuesday discussed whether the recent National Reconnaissance Office request for information with a 90-minute to 500-millisecond parameter on allowance for latency in satellite communications was acceptable or too lenient.If technology-centric dialogues such as these appeal to you and especially if you’re part of the GovCon industry, register today for ExecutiveBiz’s upcoming Trusted AI and Autonomy Forum, scheduled for Sept. 12 at Falls Church, Virginia’s 2941 Restaurant. Register here. More

A Cubic business, Instant Connect Software and Rally Tactical Systems have unveiled a joint offering designed to enable interoperability between military radio communications networks. The next-generation Radio over Internet Protocol interoperability offering integrates Instant Connect’s interoperable Push-to-Talk and Rally Tactical Systems’ RallyTac engine with Cubic’s RoIP radio gateways, Cubic said Friday. “The integration opens a […] More

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has named seven contenders for a multi-vendor prize competition co-hosted by NTIA and the Department of Defense to demonstrate interoperability between radio access network architectures. Contestants of the 2023 5G Challenge will perform work in pairs on two teams to test subsystems that support the fifth-generation mobile technology standard, […] More

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host a project aimed at demonstrating an IBM artificial intelligence-based tool for the analysis of intellectual property data on inventions. The demo will center on the IBM IP Advisor with Watson platform, which includes the Watson Assistant AI technology and Watson Discovery for guided navigation and content insight […] More