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  • Rockwell Collins to Resell Inmarsat's Global Xpress Broadband Service to Govt Aviation Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Resell Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Broadband Service to Govt Aviation Customers

    Rockwell Collins has begun to offer Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress broadband service to the government aviation market through an expanded value added reseller arrangement. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins said Monday it currently delivers Inmarsat’s GX service and Jet ConneX in-flight connectivity offering to commercial and business aviation customers under previous VAR agreements. David Poltorak, Rockwell Collins vice president of business […] More

  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said the launch of the fourth Boeing-built satellite for the Global Xpress satellite communications network seeks to validate Inmarsat’s efforts to promote resilience within its satcom offerings. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite lifted off Monday aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […] More

  • Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments

    The fourth Boeing-built broadband communications satellite launched into space Monday to join Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite took off aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket at 7:21 p.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and transmitted telemetry data to a ground station in Perth, Western […] More

  • PAE Tests Resolute Eagle UAS' Beyond-Line-of-Sight Mission Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Tests Resolute Eagle UAS’ Beyond-Line-of-Sight Mission Capacity

    PAE has tested the beyond-line-of-sight mission capacity of an unmanned aerial system at the White Sands Missile Test Range in New Mexico to demonstrate the platform’s ability to offer satellite communications and support large data transmission at an extended range. The Resolute Eagle system was able to receive command-and-control data from a tactical ground station during the test, PAE said […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Test Aircraft-Terminal Communications via Airborne Networking Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force Test Aircraft-Terminal Communications via Airborne Networking Tech

    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the capacity of an airborne networking system to facilitate and secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations. The company said Monday its Talon HATE networking system helped F-15C pilots share information via the military’s Link 16, Common Data Link and Wideband Global Satellite Communications System during a flight test held at Nellis Air […] More

  • Hughes Unveils Manpack Terminal for Multiband Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Unveils Manpack Terminal for Multiband Satcom

    Hughes Network Systems has launched a new ruggedized manpack terminal designed to provide multiband communications services to deployed users. The Hughes HM500 terminal works to provide portable satellite communications support to users involved in military operations and disaster relief missions, the company said Monday. Rajeev Gopal, senior technical director at Hughes, said HM500 leverages the company’s […] More

  • Cubic Units to Showcase C4ISR, Training Products Designed for Special Ops Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Units to Showcase C4ISR, Training Products Designed for Special Ops Forces

    Cubic‘s mission solutions and global defense businesses will participate in the upcoming Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida to demonstrate a range of C4ISR and training platforms designed for the SOF community. Cubic said Wednesday it will showcase products such as the Atlas Baseband Kit, satellite communications terminals, data links, networking systems and the Unified Video real-time streaming […] More

  • Matt Desch: 1st Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch Entered Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: 1st Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch Entered Service

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said eight of the first 10 Iridium NEXT satellites that took off in January began to provide data and voice transmission service between March and mid-April, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. Stephen Clark writes Desch said at a quarterly earnings call Thursday that engineers have begun to reposition the two other satellites […] More

  • DISA Issues Wideband Comm Ground Infrastructure RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Issues Wideband Comm Ground Infrastructure RFI

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for information on the availability of commercial ground infrastructure and related support services for satellite and non-satellite wideband communications systems. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday that Congress asked the Defense Department to perform an “analysis of alternatives” to identify a potential successor to DoD’s Wideband Global Satellite Communication system […] More

  • Lockheed Demos 'Fury' UAS in Long-Range Endurance Test Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos ‘Fury’ UAS in Long-Range Endurance Test Missions

    Lockheed Martin has conducted long-range endurance tests on a company-built tactical group 3 unmanned aerial system ahead of low-rate production of the drone. The company said Wednesday its Fury UAS has recorded a flight endurance time of 12 hours while the vehicle operated nearly 100 pounds of payload such as electro-optical/infrared surveillance and multiple signals intelligence systems, satellite communications links and voice […] More

  • Report: Air Force to Release RFI on Commercial Satcom Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force to Release RFI on Commercial Satcom Tech

    The U.S. Air Force will release a request for information on commercial satellite communications offerings for the military within the next few weeks, Space News reported Wednesday. Col. George Nagy of the office of the Defense Department‘s principal space adviser has said the Air Force began a $7.8 million Wideband Analysis of Alternatives in December as part of […] More

  • ORBCOMM to Provide VA Satcom, Asset Tracking Services via Kevadiya Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORBCOMM to Provide VA Satcom, Asset Tracking Services via Kevadiya Partnership

    Kevadiya has chosen ORBCOMM to deliver asset tracking and monitoring devices and satellite and cellular communications services for a Department of Veterans Affairs-run program that offers transportation services to veterans with disabilities or those who live in rural areas. Both companies will also provide an integrated telematics system that will support driver management, navigation, routing, patient pick-up and drop-off scheduling functions […] More