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April 29, 2008
Proactive Communications To Provide More Milsatcom Services
Proactive Communications, Inc. (PCI) now has an agreement with the Joint Contracting Command Iraq (JCC-I) for Task Force Iron (TFI), a military force operating in northern Iraq consisting of soldiers from multiple units based in Germany and United States, to deploy a satellite Internet and voice solution.
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Raytheon Gets SMART-T
Raytheon Company [NYSE:RTN] has won an $86.7 million contract to produce and install upgrade kits for the Army's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, otherwise known as SMART-T.
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April 22, 2008
Boeing + Ball's Sensor Success
The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System Block 10 team, led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. [NYSE: BLL] providing the space vehicle, have completed the payload electronics, high-speed gimbal, and testing of the space vehicle's visible sensor.
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DataPath Offers ITT A MaxView For Ka-STARS
DataPath, Inc. has been selected by ITT Corporation [NYSE: ITT] to provide the MaxView Network Management System for managing and automating the nine-meter AN/GSC-70(V)1 Ka-band Satellite Transmit and Receive Systems (Ka-STARS), under contract to the U.S. Army Program Manager, Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM-DCATS).
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ORBIT News Brief : GSA Gain For Vizada Via AOS -
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April 19, 2008
ORBIT News Brief : USFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In MayUSFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In May -
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April 18, 2008
A WIN-T For Expand
Expand Networks revealed General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army have awarded the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2–3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract to Expand Networks.
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April 17, 2008
Moving On Up... At The Space Development and Test Wing...
A Change of Command Ceremony has been held at The Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico... Colonel Kevin McLaughlin has relinquished command to Colonel B. Edwin Wilson.
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Wipe That Jamming Off Your GPS App
BAE Systems has developed a satellite navigation receiver system that provides uninterrupted operation of the Global Positioning System for air, land, and sea platforms and applications.
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ORBIT News Brief : Raytheon To Play MilHost In San Diego -
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April 16, 2008
SMC + OSC Launch New Contract
Three additional Minotaur space launch vehicles, to support the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office, have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) — and the recipient of the order is Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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SMC Is Spot On To Prevent Satellite Systems Off
An impressive effort, to say the least, as an awesome team celebrates their success.
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April 15, 2008
Major MILSATCOM Event For WGS-1
The U.S. Air Force revealed USSTRATCOM has accepted command and control of its first Wideband Global SATCOM space vehicle, WGS-1.
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April 14, 2008
ORBIT News Brief : Protection for United Arab Emirates is Foremost with Yahsat -
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April 12, 2008
NOAA To The Rescue
On April 11, 2008, NOAA satellites helped the U.S. Coast Guard respond to a major engine room fire aboard the merchant vessel M/V Sea Venus, located 1,200 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Becoming Part Of GBS Pursuit Team Is Raytheon
Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] has exclusive teaming agreements with Harris Corporation and HP as part of an industry-leading team in pursuit of the 30M/USD U.S. Air Force Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager transition contract.
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Trailering Com Security Is A DataPath Specialty for Nat'l Guard
DataPath, Inc. is starting the delivery of 32 mobile incident site command trailers to the U.S. Army National Guard for the nationwide JISCC program.
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April 10, 2008
TSAT's TESTING IS TWO THUMBS UP FOR BOEING + IBM
The advanced electronics that'll be incorporated into the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) has been demo'd by The Boeing Company and their TEAM TSAT industry partners.
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HARRIS HAS SMC SUPPORT AT HEART
The firm has been awarded a 10-year contract, valued at more than 40M/USD, to supply depot support and engineering services for multiple space control systems for the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center's (SMC) Space Superiority Systems Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
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April 9, 2008
TSAT's Testing Two Thumbs Up For Boeing + IBM
The advanced electronics that'll be incorporated into the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) has been demo'd by The Boeing Company and their TEAM TSAT industry partners.
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April 7, 2008
Working Well, Thank You, Says Lockheed Martin + U.S.A.F.
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 that was launched on March 15th from Cape Canaveral.
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April 6, 2008
COM DEV Catches Contract
COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV] has been awarded an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) from an Asian customer for work on a major subsystem of an instrument that will fly on a future Earth observation satellite.
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April 3, 2008
DataPath And CENTCOM Communicate
DataPath, Inc. has been awarded 11.5M/USD to provide field services for a critical network of DataPath Deployable Ku-band Earth Terminals in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.
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Grand GPS IIR Performance By Lockheed Martin + Team
In a ceremony heralding the success of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System Block IIR modernization effort (GPS IIR-M), Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced the company has completed work on the last satellite in the program constellation, which features a demonstration payload that will transmit the new civil signal, known as L5.
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Task Completed Ahead of Schedule By Space and Missile Systems Center
Mission completed ahead of time—what a terrific accomplishment for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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April 2, 2008
Sensing Funding Is SAIC For AISS
Providing for the upgrade of the integrated sensor assembly components for the Alternative Infrared Satellite System is a new contract to Science Applications International Corp.
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March 29, 2008
SAR-Lupe Soars Into Orbit To Join Constellation
Thales Alenia Space welcomed the successful launch of the fourth SAR-Lupe satellite, which occurred at 18:15 hours from Plesetsk on March 27th.
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March 27, 2008
MUOS Stress Success For Lockheed Martin
A key milestone has been achieved by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] in the company's development of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)—they successfully completed static loads testing of the first satellite in the program constellation.
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SAIC Senses Success
Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] has delivered its infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction—Alternative Infrared Satellite System (RR-AIRSS) program ahead of schedule.
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March 26, 2008
Xicom Amplifies Their U.S.A.F. Biz
Xicom Technology is a business unit of Radyne Corporation and they have just obtained an order to ensure Ka-band and tri-band amplifiers are delivered to the U.S. Air Force.
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March 25, 2008
A Rugged Computer Experience
Now available from Industrial Computing is The Guardian 100, a military grade (MIL-STD-810F) fully-rugged compact notebook that can be used as a standard laptop or, by rotating the display up to 180 degrees, you can transform the display into a tablet PC slate.
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March 24, 2008
And The Robert J. Collier Award Goes To... SBIRS / SMC
The U.S. Air Force nominated the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) Development, Test and On-orbit Operations Team for the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
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March 20, 2008
RT Logic is the Right Company If You’re a Downed Airman
RT Logic must be doing something right. The company was awarded a contract by Boeing Company’s Command, Control and Communications (C3) Networks Division in support of the Combat Survivor/Evader Locator (CSEL) Modulator/Receiver Processor (CMRP) project.
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March 18, 2008
Air Force Space Command's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award for 2007
Kudos to the Space and Missile System Center's Alternative Infrared Space Systems (AIRSS)/Third Generation Infrared Surveillance (3GIRS) team who won the Air Force Space Command's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award for 2007.
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It All Filters Down to Barr Playing Ball
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. recently selected Barr Associates, Inc. to develop, manufacture and test multi-spectral filters for the Operational Land Imager (OLI) they are building for NASA/USGS.
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March 15, 2008
Atlas Didn't Shrug, It Launched... 1st Time From Vandenberg...
Adding to the Atlas rocket's legacy of launches from the west coast that started in 1959, United Launch Alliance's Atlas V made its debut flight from Space Launch Complex-3 East at Vandenberg A.F.B. at 3:02 a.m. PDT, March 13th.
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March 13, 2008
GPS IIR-M Carried Aloft
A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is ready for launch aboard a Delta II rocket.
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March 12, 2008
Glowing Glowlink Report On WGS-1
Glowlink has announced the successful completion of the first phase of system deployment and support for the Department of Defense (DoD) in preparation for activating live traffic on the first Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1).
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March 11, 2008
DoD GPS Directive Reply Regarding SatNews Query...
A recent directive from the Department of Defense seemed to indicate much of the U.S. Air Force's control regarding GPS and Position, Navigation and Timing had been removed.
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Norsat + N.A.T.O. Into Portability
Norsat International Inc. [TSX – NII.TO; OTC BB – NSATF.OB] has signed a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with NATO’s Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) for their OmniLink and GLOBETrekker portable satellite terminals, as well as its suite of microwave products.
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March 9, 2008
Interesting Developments For Space Dev—Reflectors + Rockets Rule
SpaceDev, Inc. [OTCBB: SPDV] has been awarded a design and development subcontract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, for development of cost effective deployable reflectors for satellites.
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Delivering The Entertainment Goods To The Troops
MySpace, in cooperation with the Department of Defense's Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You program, presents Operation MySpace.
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March 6, 2008
SWE-DISH Suitcase Packs Up for SPAWAR
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center in which they will provide portable SATCOM terminals.
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March 5, 2008
U.S.A.F. On A Winning Track & To Be Recognized By The Space Foundation
The Space Foundation has named the United States Air Force as the recipient of the 2008 Space Achievement Award.
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SPAWAR In Globecomm's Corner
Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] has announced today they and six other companies have been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center.
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March 4, 2008
Weather Is A Hot Topic At Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] was awarded the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment (SEMS) II contract to increase effectiveness, reliability, and performance, while reducing total cost of ownership, for a variety of classified and unclassified Air Force weather systems.
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March 3, 2008
Early Northrop Grumman Bird Gets into Lockheed Martin's AEHF Work
The MILSATCOM Systems Wing has informed all that the payload module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF) military communications satellite was successfully delivered three weeks ahead of schedule from Northrop Grumman's facilities in Redondo Beach, California, to the AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin facilities, located in Sunnyvale, California.
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March 1, 2008
New DoD Directive Gives And Takes Away...
The civilian sector, rather than the U.S. Air Force, will now be the driver of of government policy when it comes to the joint military and civilian control of GPS, as seems to be indicated within a new Department of Defense (DoD) directive.
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