May 2013 Edition - New MILSATCOM Technologies
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Military Satellite News (March & April 2013)Visit www.satnews.com/military for today's military satellite news

April 30, 2013
Raytheon... This GPS Exercise Is Definitely On Track... (Satellite)
[SatNews] Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) successfully completed the second launch readiness exercise for...   Full Story

IRG @ Milsatcom Middle East... Takes International Interference To Task
[SatNews] “Regardless of the source of interference, the key to solving it is improving technology.”   Full Story

Los Angeles Air Force Base... One Set For Push + A New Director... (Satellite + Command)
[SatNews] The launch of the U.S. Air Force's Wideband Global SATCOM mission on a...   Full Story


April 29, 2013
European Space Agency, European Defence Agency + INDRA... RPAS Into Civil Space (UAV | UAS)
[SatNews] A successful ESA-EDA flight demo on remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) insertion...   Full Story

SMi’s SatCom... Great Expectations In Asia-Pacific Venue
[SatNews] The global military satellite communications market in the Asia-Pacific region is expected grow significantly.   Full Story

U.S.A.F. — SecAF Leaving...
[SatNews] Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley has announced his plan to step down...   Full Story


April 25, 2013
Newtec...A Free Event To Calendar...Government + Defense SATCOM Seminar
[SatNews] Just in to SatNews.com...information regarding a critical free seminar to be presented on...   Full Story


April 24, 2013
Gilat Satellite Networks... SatTrooper In With IDF (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT) has announced that the...   Full Story

Northrop Grumman... Developing For DARPA (Sensors)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a follow-on Phase II contract by the...   Full Story


April 22, 2013
Northrop Grumman... Here's The JIBs... 48 Of Them... (Satellite)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) will provide 48 more self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas...   Full Story

ATK Wins DARPA Award...A Result Of The Ability To SeeMe
[SatNews] They are small and can be launched quickly providing critical safety to the warfighters in action.   Full Story


April 18, 2013
Lockheed Martin... Mobility Plus Security With MUOS (Satellite)
[SatNews] Military satellite radios have rarely offered secure data communications while on the move.   Full Story

Signalhorn + Wojskowe ... Complex Communications Confab... (Comms)
[SatNews] Telecommunications operator Signalhorn SARL and Wojskowe have reached...   Full Story

KRYTAR... Divider + Conquer... (Microwave)
[SatNews] KRYTAR, Inc. now has a new 2-way power divider offering high performance over...   Full Story


April 17, 2013
Parvus Corporation + SAIC... Much Ado About PEO C3T (Comms)
[SatNews] Parvus Corporation, a Eurotech subsidiary and Cisco Systems Solution Technology Integration (STI) partner, has signed a...   Full Story

World Surveillance Group... Extending Battlefield Radios (Comms)
[SatNews] World Surveillance Group Inc. (OTCQB: WSGI), a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, has announced that its...   Full Story


April 16, 2013
Air Force Space Command Goes Transparent + Stratcom Shares Space Safety
[SatNews] "We received nearly 500,000 satellite observations and screened over 1,000 active satellites on a daily basis..."   Full Story

Astrium Secures Milsatcoms To Ensure A Secure World (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] Astrium will soon be able to offer near-global coverage in X-band with the successful entry into service of...   Full Story


April 15, 2013
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)... The First Goes On Display @ Smithsonian (Satellite)
[SatNews] Starting this month, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will examine the cultural and...   Full Story

U.S.A.F... Slashing Space Program Spending... (Budgets)
[SatNews] Sandra I. Erwin at National Defense magazine, published by the National Defense Industrial Association (ISDA), offers the following article...   Full Story

ILS Successfully Launches Canada’s Anik G1 On A Breeze-M
[SatNews] This satellite doubles C- and Ku-band capacity over South America...additional DTH services in extended Ku-Band and military X-band coverage, and more.   Full Story


April 10, 2013
Northrop Grumman... The Hawk Has It... (UAV | UAS)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) recently received an undefinitized contract award valued at...   Full Story

Department of Defense (DoD)... Financially Speaking, The Big "Uh-Ohs"
[SatNews] President Barack Obama today sent to Congress on April 10th a proposed defense budget of...   Full Story

Lockheed Martin... Delta PDR Success for GPS III (Satellite)
[SatNews] Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed a...   Full Story


April 9, 2013
JITC... African Endeavor Set For Zambia... (Comms)
[SatNews] The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) is preparing for...   Full Story

ReportLinker + Visiongain... All About MILSATCOM + COTS (Analysis | Report)
[SatNews] Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Military Communications & COTS Market 2013-2023.   Full Story

Boeing... FAB-T Enters New Phase + Brazil Bound (Terminals + Business)
[SatNews] The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) wideband communications program has...   Full Story

Lockheed Martin... MUOS Moving Forward (Satellite)
[SatNews] Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has integrated two of the most important components onto its fourth...   Full Story


April 8, 2013
Northrop Grumman... Navy Combat Ops Assistance (Comms)
[SatNews] The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) an $80 million contract to...   Full Story

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions... Sshhhhhh... Special Agent Present... (Space Systems Security)
[SatNews] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) has revealed that Kratos SecureInfo, Kratos' dedicated...   Full Story

Harris... Better BLOS For Asian Nation (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $29 million order to provide a nation in...   Full Story


April 4, 2013
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions... Systems Solutions (UAV | UAS)
[SatNews] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) has announced...   Full Story

Kratos' RT Logic... Encryption + Decryption... (Telemetry)
[SatNews] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) has announced that its...   Full Story


April 1, 2013
Space Systems/Loral + U.S.A.F... Satellites' Study Set Up (Analysis | Report)
[SatNews] Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has been selected to study the feasibility of accommodating...   Full Story

U.S.A.F... Results Of Restructuring (Command)
[SatNews] Critical Air Force missions continue from their current locations after today's restructure of...   Full Story


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