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Newest DARPA Challenge: 'Shift Paradigm' With Robot Radio
Sep 12, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off three-year contest for the creation of an Artificial Intelligence radio tech tha...
SES Government solutions to provide the US with a high performance network
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
SES S.A. reports that SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, was recently awarded a contract to provide an O3b Networks high throu...
Datron gets $495 million Afghan radio contract
Aug 30, 2016 (UPI)
Datron World Communications has been awarded a $495 million contract to provide Afghanistan with radios and support equipment. The U.S. Army deal is a firm-fixe...
The sky's no limit for young space professionals
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
Where once it was enough to develop revolutionary technology to send into space, now there is increased emphasis on protecting that technology once it gets into...
Open Architecture opens opportunities for acquisition reform
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
There has been a steady stream of recent ideas to reform military acquisition. Nickolas Guertin and James P. Craft have proposed one of the most intriguing. "On...
Russia develops protected alternative to satellite communication
Aug 19, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian engineers have invented a long-range protected communication technology which can duplicate satellite communications, matching them in both speed and di...
Raytheon, L-3 and ViaSat get U.S. Air Force SATCOM contracts
Aug 12, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems, L-3 Communications Systems and ViaSat have received U.S. Air Force contracts for the Wideband Global Satellite Communic...
Two ViaSat network encryptors now NSA-certified
Aug 11, 2016 (UPI)
Two ViaSat network encryptors recently received U.S. National Security Agency certification, the company announced Wednesday. The NSA certification allows U.S. ...
GenDyn to improve U.S. Navy digital modular radio
Aug 05, 2016 (UPI)
General Dynamics has received a U.S. Navy contract modification to improve high-frequency communications for the service's AN/USC-61(C) digital modular radios, ...
L-3 Communications gets $216 million U.S. Army aircraft contract modification
Jul 26, 2016 (UPI)
L-3 Communications Corp. has been awarded a $216 million U.S. Army contract modification for contractor aircraft logistics support.  The modification covers 12...
Raytheon developing next-gen airborne communications
Jul 25, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon is developing new technologies that will allow the next generation of manned and unmanned aircraft to seamlessly communicate, the company said Monday. ...
Rethinking the Space Environment in a Globalized World
Jul 18, 2016 (SPX)
Globalization has made the world a smaller place, with people, goods and services crossing borders with ease unimagined by earlier generations. Much of this glo...
What Industry Can Teach the DoD About Innovation
Jul 18, 2016 (SPX)
In a recent Washington Post story, Lexington Institute defense consultant Loren Thompson talked about the daunting task the U.S. Department of Defense faces in ...
New Class of RPAs Well Suited to a Variety of Government Uses
Jul 18, 2016 (SPX)
Just as Intelsat is launching its new generation of Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellites, a new type of small remotely piloted aircraft (sUAS) is being ou...
MUOS-5 Transfer Maneuver Temporarily Halted, Parked In Safe Orbit
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
The fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite, which successfully launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 on June 24, was projected to reach its geo...
SES Government Solutions Secures Contract for Thule Tracking Station DS3 Service
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
SES Government Solutions (SES GS) has been awarded the Thule Tracking Station Digital Signal 3 (DS3) Service Contract to continue to provide the U.S. Government...
MUOS-5 secure communications satellite responding to ground control
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Naval Spacecraft Operations Control facility here is talking with the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) satellite in space after its successful launch...
How to Improve Enterprise Ground Services for Space
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Recently, I wrote about the push to improve Air Force Space Command's Enterprise Ground Services (EGS). EGS is not a new kind of ground system or acquisition pr...
MUOS-5 Secure Communications Satellite to launch June 24
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin are ready to launch the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) secure communications satellite, MUOS-5, here on Friday, Jun...
Testing Confirms Intelsat EpicNG Delivers a Whole New Ballgame
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
As a retired Army Signal Officer, I understand how critical satellite connectivity is to accomplishing the mission. I've also experienced how frustrating bandwi...
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