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Newtec to Supply Satellite Modem for Canada’s Auror Aircraft Modernization Efforts

General Dynamics‘ Mission Systems-Canada subsidiary has awarded Newtec a contract to provide an ATR-sized airborne modem to Canada in support of the country’s efforts to modernize its CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft fleet. Canada’s defense department will install Newtec’s MDM9000 Satellite Modem to the Aurora as part of the military’s Aurora Incremental Modernization Project Block IV program, Newtech said Thursday. Koen Willems, Newtec […] More

by Dominique Stump October 7, 2016, 4:29 am
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Boeing to Support Army’s Wideband Satcom Operational Mgmt System

Boeing has received a $46.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support for the wideband satellite communications operational management system. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur through Sept. 1, 2021 and that performance locations and funds will be determined with every order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online […] More

by Ramona Adams September 6, 2016, 5:25 am
in C4ISR News, News

Todd McDonell: Inmarsat Aims to Help Address Connectivity Demand in Military Sector

Todd McDonell, vice president of global government solutions at Inmarsat, has told Talk Satellite in an interview the company uses its L-band and Ka-band satellite platforms to help military customers address connectivity requirements. He noted in the interview that the emergence of the network centric warfare concept has increased a demand for interconnection between systems and people, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “Global Xpress is […] More

by Scott Nicholas August 4, 2016, 7:14 am
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iDirectGov Releases Updated Transmission Security Software for Remotes & Defense Line Card Portfolio

iDirect Government has launched its Evolution 3.4.1 software that is designed to facilitate transmission security for airborne, maritime and land-based satellite communications using the 9-Series portfolio of remotes and defense line cards. The satcom provider said Monday the software works to support 950mp, 900 and 9350 remotes as well as DLC-T and DLC-R line cards via a single platform. iDirectGov added it also […] More

by Ramona Adams May 24, 2016, 9:09 am
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Army Activates 1st Boeing WGS Satellite for Cross-Band Satellite Communications Services

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command activated the first satellite of the Boeing-built Wideband Global Satellite constellation six months after it completed a series of tests, the Army reported Thursday. WGS-1 is the first block I satellite of the WGS constellation that works to provide two-way Ka– and X-band communications services for combatant commanders […] More

by Jane Edwards April 15, 2016, 8:44 am
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Inmarsat Gets MSUA Gov’t Mobility Satcom Award for Global Xpress; Peter Hadinger Comments

Inmarsat has received a Mobility Satellite Innovation Award from the Mobile Satellite Users Association in recognition of the company“™s Global Xpress satellite communications constellation. Inmarsat accepted the 2016 Top Government Mobility Satcom Innovation award during MSUA“™s inaugural awards ceremony at the four-day Satellite 2016 conference in Maryland, Inmarsat said Tuesday. Peter Hadinger, president of U.S. […] More

by Neel Mehta March 9, 2016, 12:00 am
in Industry News, News

Northrop-ViaSat-Optus Team Bids for Australia’s Military Satcom Program; Ian Irving Comments

Northrop Grumman, ViaSat and Optus have partnered to offer a technology for Australian armed forces to leverage a wideband global satellite communications network. The alliance proposed to give the Australian military access to the Satcom Operations and Planning Element, a Northrop-built network management system designed to integrate with WGS, Northrop said Monday. Ian Irving, chief […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman August 31, 2015, 9:19 am
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Boeing Tests Ka-band Inmarsat-5 F2 Satcom Service; Jim Mitchell Comments

Boeing is close to wrapping up the initial tests of a Ka-band offering intended to provide satellite communications to agencies under the Defense Department through Inmarsat“™s Global Xpress satellite network. The tests sought to assess the capability of the Inmarsat-5 F2 satcom service to facilitate video and data transmission on military helicopters and mobile terminals, Boeing said Tuesday. The […] More

by Jane Edwards July 22, 2015, 7:45 am
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US Air Force Seeks Commercial Partner to Handle Wideband Satcom Ops; Dave Madden Comments

The U.S. Air Force is looking to outsource the operations of its wideband global satellite communications network to a commercial company by 2016, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes that the goal is to allow Air Force crews to focus on the battle management aspect of the satellite constellation. Crew members at present work to track […] More

by Jay Clemens March 13, 2015, 7:58 am
in C4ISR News

Boeing Hands Pentagon WGS Satellite 6, WGS-5 to Launch Wednesday

Boeing has delivered the sixth wideband global satellite communications spacecraft to the Defense Department in preparation for its scheduled launch in 2013. The company shipped the WGS-6 satellite from its facility in El Segundo, Calif. to Titusville, Fla. and the spacecraft will be tested, fueled and integrated before its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Boeing […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 20, 2013, 10:58 am

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