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December 24, 2015
UAS West Symposium Set For March Of Next Year In San Diego
Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade.
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December 23, 2015
Contract To Boeing For Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 Sustainment
This effort includes systems engineering, operations, operations support, and contractor logistics support.
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New Military Satellite For The French Defence Procurement Agency To Be Produced By Airbus Defence & Space
Airbus Defence and Space will also be co-responsible, together with Thales Alenia Space (lead contractor), for the entire space program.
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Harris Celebrates 120-Year Anniversary...Print Company Begins In Jewelry Store To $8 Billion Top 10 Defense Contractor
the world’s first automatic and four-color printing presses, the Washington-Moscow hotline, GPS navigation space antennas, multi-band military radios, and advanced air traffic management and weather forecasting solutions.
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December 21, 2015
United Launch Alliance Brings Home A Perfect Report Card... And Celebrates A 10th Anniversary
...unveiled the Vulcan rocket, ULA’s next-generation launch system, which will be the highest-performing, most cost-efficient rocket on the market.
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A Celebration For AFSPC SMC As SBIRS Ground System Achieves Two Major Milestones
...the Block 10 plan has successfully implemented a "crawl, walk, run" approach as it has incrementally demonstrated the functionality of the new integrated command and control for...
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DARPA Solicits Innovative Research Proposals In The Area Of Integrated Photonics For Free-Space Optical Systems
The capability of this technology will then be demonstrated in a packaged LIDAR system.
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Falcon III Tactical Radios From Harris Heading To A Middle East Nation
Harris will provide several configurations of its Falcon III® radios.
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Cubic Squares Off With Two Year End Acquisitions... Expands + Takes A Bite Into C4ISR + PED w/GATR + TeraLogics
“The acquisition of TeraLogics and GATR represents powerful next steps in achieving our C4ISR growth strategy as they expand our footprint in the C4ISR and SATCOM markets.”
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Historic 'Mission Possible' For SpaceX... Falcon 9 Goes Up AND Successfully Comes Back Down AND Releases 11 ORBCOMM Small Sats
The clock was running and in less than an hour history has been made at Cape Canaveral.
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December 15, 2015
General Dynamics Wins $450 Million Contract For Com Services To USAFCENT In Southwest + Central Asia
Under this contract, General Dynamics will provide communications systems acquisition, integration, installation, operations and maintenance support.
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December 14, 2015
Inmarsat Bonds With EM Solutions For MILSATCOM GX Terminal + With Turksat For A Strategic Partnership
The EM Solutions terminal is scheduled to receive full Inmarsat accreditation during Q2 2016 — and under the MoU, Inmarsat would be the preferred mobile satellite communications provider for Turksat.
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More Than A Half-Decade Of Vandenberg Launches...
The successful test was conducted only a year after the base was activated—and ignited a launch legacy spanning more than five decades.
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December 10, 2015
45th Space Wing Reinforces ULA Atlas V Launch Of Orbital ATK's CRS-4 To ISS
"The launch of this mission clearly demonstrates the successful collaboration our wing has with our partners at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the Space and Missile Systems Center and industry."—Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing Commander, U.S.A.F.
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UltiSat's New Senior VP Of Government Solutions... She Comes w/20 Years Leadership Experience
...she graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy where she served as an active duty navy cryptologist and tactical communications officer...
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December 7, 2015
USAF's 45th Space Wing Supports + Celebrates...Launch Of Cygnus + More Than 50 Years History w/ULA + NASA
This will be the first flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS.
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December 6, 2015
Kratos' Successful Second Flight Of Unmanned Tactical Aerial Platform Validates Valuable Tool For Warfighter
"I firmly believe our UTAP-22 concept of a tactical manned aircraft teamed with unmanned aircraft capable of operating at tactical speeds, in a hostile environment, will be an affordable, effective and valuable tool for the warfighter, addressing a critical need."
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Russia Experiences 'Issues' ...One Of The Two Defense Satellites Did Not Separate From Upper Stage
One of the satellites launched on December 5 by a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket did not separate from the upper block, and may be sunk, a source in the space industry said Sunday.
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December 3, 2015
An Acceptance Of The Lockheed Martin Built MUOS-4 Satellite By The U.S. Navy
MUOS-4 will be relocated in Spring 2016 to its on-orbit operational slot in preparation for operational acceptance.
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NSR's Year's End Finds Government + Military Soul Searching In Preparation For Next Gen's Satcom Networks
with many questions: how much commercial, how much jam protection and resiliency, and fundamentally, how much do we spend... or pay for it?
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Russia's Successful Test Flight Of Nudol... An Anti-Satellite Missile
Moscow recently announced plans to upgrade its Moscow missile defense system, which uses nuclear-tipped interceptors.
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December 2, 2015
USAF Awards General Dynamics Contract To Support NORAD + PACAF Air Defense Comms
The company will also deliver communications to enable sustained command and control (C2) for Air Defense of the United States.
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Norsat's New Compact ATOM 25 Watt Smaller + Lighter = Transmission Of Commercial + Military Satellite Signals
The ATOM Ka- dual-band BUC and SSPA are up to 70 percent smaller and up to 65 percent lighter than equivalent BUCs...
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December 1, 2015
Sierra Nevada Corporation Workin' Hard + Ships 11 Satellites For ORBCOMM’s OG2 Mission 2 Launch
“These 11 satellites were integrated and tested in a high-volume production environment, demonstrating our ability to efficiently integrate and produce constellations in this class...."
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