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C/NOFS Satellite Launched From Reagan Test Site

The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was launched from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

19 April 2008: General Dynamics

 

Contract for JTRS Capabilities and Information Assurance Services

General Dynamics has been awarded a contract worth up to $140 million to develop and integrate the maritime and fixed-site joint tactical radio capabilities and provide information assurance services for the Lockheed Martin Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Site (AMF) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) team.

19 April 2008: General Dynamics

 

GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO) achieves 10 years of successful on orbit operation

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. operational altimeter satellite, GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO), has achieved 10 years of successful on orbit operation, providing continuous worldwide oceanographic data for ships at sea and the Navy's shore-based facilities.

14 April 2008: Ball Aerospace & Technologies

 

Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 counter-fire target acquisition (EQ-36) radar tested

Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC)'s radar that is the prototype for Lockheed Martin's Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 counter-fire target acquisition (EQ-36) radar recently completed successful performance testing in 360-degree counter-fire mode against mortars and rockets at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. The prototype radar was developed by SRC under an Army Technology Objective.

13 April 2008: Lockheed Martin

 

General Dynamics - Satellite Terminals for US Army

General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been awarded $109 million from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J., to provide specialized satellite communications earth terminals and support services for Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program.

12 April 2008: General Dynamics

 

Boeing and TEAM TSAT - Satellite electronics demonstrated

The Boeing Company and its TEAM TSAT industry partners have successfully demonstrated the readiness of the advanced electronics that will be used in the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT).

11 April 2008: Boeing

 

Northrop Grumman - Strategic Agreement With SEAKR Engineering

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced a strategic, long-term supply agreement with SEAKR Engineering, Inc., Centennial, Colo., making SEAKR an exclusive supplier for select command and data handling equipment.

11 April 2008: Northrop Grumman

 

New contract for communications supplier

Ultra Electronics Tactical Communication Systems Division (Ultra TCS) has announced the award of contract modifications valued at more than US$30,000,000 through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, for the supply of its AN/GRC-245 HCLOS radio and TRC190 V1 and V3 kits for the U.S. Army’s WIN-T Program under contact no. DAAB07-98-C-F505.

11 April 2008: Ultra-TCS

 

Lockheed Martin - Record on-orbit deployment of GPS system

A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team has completed a rapid on-orbit deployment of the modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite launched on March 15 from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft, which includes new features that enhance operations and navigation signal performance, has been declared operational for military and civilian navigation users worldwide.

09 April 2008: Lockheed Martin

 

Ultra Electronics to supply AN/GRC-245A HCLOS (TM) radios to US Army

Ultra Electronics - Tactical Communication Systems has been awarded a contract amendment valued at US $30,000,000 for the supply of its AN/GRC-245A HCLOS (TM) radios and associated equipment for TRC190 communication shelters for the U.S. Army’s WIN-T Program.

09 April 2008: Ultra Electronics

 

SAIC to Support the JTRS Ground Domain

SAIC Awarded $42 Million Task Order from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

07 April 2008: SAIC

 

PacStar - Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE)

PacStar, has announced that the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE) is a leading communications organization that provides CJCS-directed communications support to combatant commands, services, defense and other government agencies as directed.

06 April 2008: PacStar

 

SAIC - $42 Million Task Order from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

Science Applications International Corporation has announced it has been awarded a task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command located in San Diego, to support the Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). This single-award contract has a one year base period of performance, four one-year options and a total contract value of more than $42 million if all options are exercised. The award is a task order under the SeaPort-e contract.

05 April 2008: SAIC

 

General Dynamics - next generation Tactical Data Network (TDN)

General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to produce units of the next generation Tactical Data Network (TDN)-Data Distribution System-Modular (DDS-M), a modular, scalable Internet Protocol (IP) communications and networking system. The initial award value of the contract is $130 million; it has a total potential value of $375 million if all options are exercised.

05 April 2008: General Dynamics

 

Partnership to provide communications solutions to the military

PacStar, a technology-based provider of communications solutions to the military and government, has announced partnerships with INX and World Wide Technology to deliver the PacStar 6000 set of solutions to the military.

03 April 2008: PacStar

 

SAIC Delivers Infrared Sensor for Risk Reduction - Alternative Infrared Satellite System

Science Applications International Corporation have announced that it has delivered its infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction - Alternative Infrared Satellite System (RR-AIRSS) program ahead of schedule.

31 March 2008: SAIC

 

Lockheed Martin MUOS Programme

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., prime contractor and systems engineering lead for the MUOS program, is under contract to design, build and deploy the first two MUOS satellites and the associated MUOS ground system.

31 March 2008: Lockheed Martin

 

European Antennas - Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler for BAe Systems

European In 2005 BAE Systems was awarded a $2 million contract to provide a Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler radar to the UK Aberporth Test and Evaluation Range, operated by QinetiQ on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence.

31 March 2008: European Antennas

 

US Army Transmit Sensor Data from JTRS Radios to FCS Vehicles for 1st Time

Boeing Company and the U.S. Army have demonstrated for the first time that the software-defined Joint Tactical Radio System Ground Mobile Radios (JTRS GMR) can receive data from unattended ground sensors and pass the data to nearby vehicles equipped with the Future Combat Systems (FCS) network integration system.

26 March 2008: Boeing

 

DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs)

DataPath, a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, has been awarded $6.6 million to continue resets, repairs and upgrades to DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub SATCOM Trucks (UHSTs) used in the U.S. Army's Joint Network Node (JNN)/ Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. This delivery order is part of a previously announced four-year contract with the Army that has a potential value of up to $270 million for the company.

26 March 2008: DataPath

 

SWE-DISH Satellite Systems

SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center to provide portable SATCOM terminals.

26 March 2008: DataPath

 

DRS Techologies - The JV-5 vehicle computing system

DRS Technologies, has announced that it received a contract, not-to-exceed (NTE) $98.3 million to provide JV-5 ultra-rugged vehicle computing and display systems for the Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) and Blue Force Tracking (BFT) programs to support U.S. Army and Marine Corps (USMC) situational awareness requirements. The company received the contract from the Army's Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM), Life Cycle Management Command at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

23 March 2008: DRS Technologies

 

Iridium - Next concept developmental phase

Iridium® Satellite has announced it has reached agreement with three companies to enter into the concept development phase in its design and development procurement process for 'NEXT,' the company's next-generation satellite constellation.

22 March 2008: Iridium

 

New Missile Warning Satellite - Progress news

Lockheed Martin has announced that the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) spacecraft is progressing through a series of key tests that will demonstrate the integrated satellite's readiness to enter the critical environmental test phase in preparation for launch in late 2009.

22 March 2008: Lockheed Martin

 

Ball Aerospace 2008 Herschel Award

The Ball Aerospace Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory (IRREL) operated at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has received the 2008 Herschel Award.

19 March 2008: Ball Aerospace & Technologies

 
 
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