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October 30, 2012
ViaSat... DoD Rollout May Now Continue (Comms)
[SatNews OCTOBER 31, 2012] ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has received orders in excess of $11 million for...
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Boeing... TDRS K Soon To Be Boxed Up For Trip To Florida (Satellite)
[SatNews OCTOBER 31, 2012] Boeing [NYSE: BA] is on schedule to deliver the next-generation series of...
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Harris Hefty Contract U.S. Army’s $50 Million Order Create Communications Backbone
[SatNews] This contract has an indefinite delivery/quantity with the potential value of $600 million...
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October 29, 2012
Spacecom + DRS Technical Services... U.S. Armed Services Support (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Spacecom (Space-Communication Ltd., Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has been awarded two contracts by...
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SIA’s DoD Commercial SATCOM Users Workshop Ramps Up For Worldwide Participants (Event)
[SatNews] As world events intensify, communications are the critical element that link the world, and how best to do that will be shared at...
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October 28, 2012
Squire Tech Solutions... Auto-Connect Advance (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Squire Tech Solutions has now made available their Squire Tech Solutions Mobile Responder 600...
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TeleCommunication Systems... Signing On For SNAP Support + Financially Speaking (SATCOM + Business)
[SatNews] TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received $18 million in...
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Agile Milcoms... FMV For Fighters (ISR + SATCOM)
[SatNews] Agile Milcoms, an ACS company, will demo their new ISR-Direct™ platform that...
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URGENT: MILCOM2012 AND AFCEA CANCELLED...Sandy Strikes
[SatNews] Just in to SatNews.com the following announcement...
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U.S.A.F.—L.A.F.B.+ Raytheon.. NexGen Operational Control System Phase OK'd (Satellite)
[SatNews] Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate announced that the...
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U.S.A.F. + Lockheed Martin... The 5th + 6th Warning Systems Work To Begin (Satellites)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] an $82 million contract to begin initial work on...
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October 26, 2012
Harris... L-Band Functionality Ensured (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $6 million order from the...
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ITT Exelis + U.S. Army’s $56 Million Takes SINCGARS Further... Army Of Won
[SatNews] With more than 570,000 radios delivered to date to the United States and many of its allies, this is the most prolific tactical radio system in the world.
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October 25, 2012
Wind River... @ MILCOM 2012 With... (Event)
[SatNews] Wind River? will exhibit at MILCOM 2012, October 29–November 1 in Orlando, Florida.
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Hughes + ThinKom... Dynamic Demo Deliveries (SATCOM—COTM)
[SatNews] Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) and ThinKom Solutions, Inc. (ThinKom) have announced the...
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Haivision Partners With Agile Milcoms to Keep Warfighters-on-the Move Agile And Safe
[SatNews] A partnership that can really take off and save lives in the process...
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October 24, 2012
ORBIT Communication Systems... Comms Augmentation With Triple Band
[SatNews] ORBIT Communication Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of ORBIT Technologies Ltd. (TASE:ORBI), has announced that its new...
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ViaSat... Military Aircraft FlightComms Access (SATCOM)
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has received a multimillion dollar award from the...
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Northrop Grumman... The Early BACN Build (UAS | UAV — Comms)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the...
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ManTech Int'l... S3 Provisioning Ongoing With U.S. Army (C4ISR)
[SatNews] ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) was awarded a task order under its...
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PolarSat... More Enter The VSATPlus 3 Fold... (SATCOM)
[SatNews] PolarSat Inc. now has four more new customers who have purchased...
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Orbital Sciences... Multiple Payloads + Maneuverability (Spacecraft Platform)
[SatNews] Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has announced that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has awarded the company...
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Hughes Network Systems... @ MILCOM 2012 With... (Event—SATCOM)
[SatNews] Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) announced that two executives will present papers at the...
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October 23, 2012
Harris... Future Falcons Assured (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a potential value of...
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Harris + Tampa Microwave... Seeker + Receive (Antenna)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and Tampa Microwave™ have jointly developed a tri-band satellite communications antenna that offers...
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Agilent Technologies... @ MILCOM 2012 With... (Test + Measurement)
[SatNews] Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) will demo nexgen test and measurement solutions...
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Advantech Wireless... Rugged Releases... (Terminals)
[SatNews] Advantech Wireless has released a new line of weather-proof...
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Hughes Europe + Bentley Walker... More For Troops In The Middle East (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Hughes Europe and Bentley Walker will launch Ka-band communications services into the Middle East over...
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Raytheon... Soldiers To Gain More SATCOM Capacity (Comms)
[SatNews] Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded $51 million to build more...
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October 22, 2012
ULA’s Delay... And Rescheduling For USAF
[SatNews] A delay is necessary to ensure the safety of the launch. And so it is with...
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ViaSat... Boon For Dismounted + Mobile Warfighters (SATCOM)
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) will be exhibiting a new portable broadband terminal featuring...
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October 19, 2012
U.S. Army... SkySat Send Up (Comms)
[SatNews] The crisp early morning of October 11th saw a number of hot air balloons in the sky...
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October 18, 2012
Lockheed Martin... Bringing In New ISR Capabilities (Comms)
[SatNews] The mobile testbed used by the U.S. Department of Defense to assess new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies prior to...
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TE Connectivity... @ MILCOM'12 With... (Interconnects)
[SatNews] TE Connectivity (TE) will be featuring a range of nexgen military electronics technologies at this year’s...
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U.S. Army... Training Initiated On Capability Set 13 (Comms)
[SatNews] The U.S. Army, through its System of Systems Integration Directorate, announced that the first fielding of...
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ViaSat... Tracking Tenacity (SATCOM)
[SatNews] A new high-dynamic C-band antenna feed, designed to track fast moving targets and...
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October 17, 2012
Boeing + Air Force Research Laboratory... Space Situational Awareness Has Laser Help... (Tech)
[SatNews] A sodium guide star laser built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) began operating recently...
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It’s A Disaster! As Pacific Area Agencies And GVF Ramp Up
[SatNews] Always be prepared...always...and so...
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October 16, 2012
Harris... It's An OpenSky For The New Radios (Comms—Tactical)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received $15 million in orders from a nation in Latin America...
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Newtec And InSat Ka- Band Together...Confirm Terminal Good Health Of HYLAS 2
[SatNews] “...welcome to the newest HYLAS 2 partners and congratulate the Company on completing a speedy installation of its first Ka-band hub, in just three days.”
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MILCOM‘12 Brings “Trusted Communications…Awareness To Action” To Florida (Event)
[SatNews] Complementing the technical program is a Small Business Workshop...an opportunity to participate in real-time interaction with Harris Corporation and other prime contractors.
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October 15, 2012
MILCOM'12... The Event Name Says It All (Event)
[SatNews] Join your military, academic and industry colleagues in Orlando, Florida for...
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October 13, 2012
Northrop Grumman... Beefing Up The Bombers (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force's fleet of B-2 stealth bombers will begin receiving new...
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October 11, 2012
ITT Exelis...Others Will Be Green With ENVI
[SatNews] This product sends information from airborne and satellite imagery to military and intel via a mobile device identifying potential targets and threats.
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Air Force Space Command... Examining The Engine... (Launch)
[SatNews] Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton has ordered an...
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October 9, 2012
GateHouse + Inmarsat... What's Getting Into SDRs These Days? Why, It's BGAN... (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Inmarsat has approved the BGAN waveform for software defined radios (SDR)...
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ITT Exelis... Managing Persistent Wide Area Surveillance (Imagery)
[SatNews] ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) announced it has released the next version of its...
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Harris Supplies $5 Million Worth Of Falcon III® To NATO Nation
[SatNews] ...(these) radios support network-centric requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense and international allies in more than 150 countries.
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October 8, 2012
Boeing... Survivable + Secure (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) team recently completed...
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ISPCS 2012 Offers A New Level Of Spaceflight (Event)
[SatNews] The top leaders and innovators in the commercial spaceflight industry will be in attendance at...
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October 4, 2012
It's A Go! ULA’s Delta Takes U.S.A.F.’s GPS To New Heights
[SatNews] Up, off and away!
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Harris... Tactical Considerations For U.S. Navy (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $297 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to...
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Northrop Grumman... Payload Integration Completed (Satellite)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed payload integration and the ambient functional test of the...
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October 3, 2012
Vislink—Enemies Will Be Praying...Mantis...Military’s Lightest SatCom Terminal
[SatNews] “...meets the exacting, high-bandwidth, connectivity requirements now demanded by forces around the world to address an increasingly difficult operating environment. It is an extremely complex sector...”
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U.S.A.F. Space & Missile Systems Center... Almost Ready For Warfighters... (Satellite)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force has announced that the first Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite and associated ground system is...
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October 1, 2012
DeLorme Has Solutions With inReach™ And On Display AT AOPA Summit (Event)
[SatNews] ...“takes the ‘search’ out of search-and-rescue by automatically activating remote tracking for any SOS alert...”
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TeleCommunication Systems (TCS)... SNAP'ing To It (SATCOM)
[SatNews] TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received a combined $5.5 million in delivery orders from...
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