The U.S. Air Force has received updated position, navigation and timing software from Lockheed Martin to help modernize the service's ground control system for GPS III satellites. Read more
An L3 Technologies business received a $46.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to build and test GPS receivers for future military missions. Read more
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the first software-defined GPS receiver, which was designed for rapid GPS signal tracking, during a recently concluded test flight with the U.S. Air Force R... Read more
Northrop Grumman has secured a $65.9M contract modification to continue to develop an embedded GPS/inertial navigation system for the U.S. Air Force. Read more
Collins Aerospace has secured a two-year, $43M contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and develop GPS receivers for military use. Read more
The U.S. Navy is set to sign a contract with Raytheon by May to begin the production of the company’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for use on the service’s nuclear-powered air... Read more
Tracking software provider Teletrac Navman has received a provisional authority to operate for its fleet management platform under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The... Read more
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on potential vendors of new spacecraft buses that can support military satellite communications for future missions in space. Read more
Ravenswood Solutions, an SRI International subsidiary, has secured a $39.9M contract to produce instrumentation systems for the U.S. Army National Guard. The company said Monday it will deli... Read more
Mitre has obtained a U.S. patent for an antenna and ground plane technology designed to suppress back radiation from GPS antennas mounted on aircraft platforms. Read more
Gene Colabatistto, president of defense and security group at CAE, has said he believes warfighters should be trained at strategic, operational and tactical levels to defend against future s... Read more
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, told Fortune magazine in a video interview aired Tuesday how threats to space assets could impact mobile dev... Read more
Lynn Dugle, president, chairman and CEO of Engility, told Fortune in an interview published Monday how space assets help the military perform operations on the ground. She said satellite com... Read more
A General Atomics business has added a provision to the navigation receiver of a baseline remotely piloted aircraft to support connections with the European Union and the European Space Agen... Read more
DHS Issues Robotic Comms Tech RFI
The Department of Homeland Security has posted a request for information on off-the-shelf technology platforms that employ a robotics architecture and could facilitate communications in bord... Read more