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February 25, 2010
Comtech — A Force For The Blue
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking ("BFT-1") program contract with the U.S. Army.
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USAF | SMC — OCX Is Under Control
Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced the award of the Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) contract to Raytheon Company, Intelligence & Information Systems, Aurora, Colorado.
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Harris — USMC Has High Freq Tac Talk
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS has received an order valued at $78 million to provide additional Falcon II(r) AN/VRC-104 high-frequency tactical radio systems for use in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs).
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February 24, 2010
Stampede Technologies Herds Up Solutions And Ropes Up FX 1000 Remote Office
Stampede Technologies, Inc. has launched the FX Series 1000 Remote Office Appliance, which offers the most diverse set of WAN optimization and acceleration products for enterprises and satellite network operators.
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February 23, 2010
Hughes — Care Enough To Send The Very Best To Troops
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has signed Operation AC as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) of broadband satellite services focused on Afghanistan and Iraq.
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26th National Space Symposium — Attend And Prosper — No Spock Ears Required!
SatNews has been sharing with you all of the events and speakers that will be in attendance next month from April 12-15 at the beautiful five star Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, including Leonard S. Nimoy and now there is more . . .
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February 22, 2010
U.S.A.F. — Chief Of Staff Acknowledges Airmen's Efforts In Armed Forces Success
The Air Force's highest ranking uniformed officer spoke on the value of space and the emerging medium of cyberspace during the Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition on February 18 in Orlando.
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Marshall Communications — Doing Good For DISA/DoD
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded MARSHALL Communications Corporation two contracts for maintenance and support on the DVB-RCS Hub located in Landstuhl, Germany, and the Hub located at DISA’s Skyline, Falls Church facility.
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Northrop Grumman — Building Up...
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Navigation Systems Division has recently broken ground on a facility expansion designed to increase factory output and better serve its commercial, defense and national security customers.
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February 19, 2010
Thales Alenia Space Ships Sats — For German Military
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has shipped to the Kourou spaceport the second ComSatBw satellite, which will be launched on March 24 by an Ariane 5 ECA.
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February 18, 2010
U.S.A.F. — It's All About SATCOM, Navigation + Timing For Haitian Relief Activities
Members of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB are continuing to support relief efforts in Haiti by providing space effects, such as satellite communications and position timing and navigation services.
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Space Micro — Radiation Free Space Radio
Space Micro Inc. has been awarded a $100,000 by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop space communications hardware that is compatible with a wide variety of existing communication systems and is not susceptible to the damaging effects of radiation in space.
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Alliant Techsystems — An ORS-1 Bus Trip
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) is preparing to conduct final testing and then will ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months.
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Lockheed Martin — Woz To Make MILCOM Memorable
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced that Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer, Inc. co-founder and Fusion-io chief scientist will deliver the opening keynote address at MILCOM 2010.
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GSA + DISA — Cost Calculations Create Commercial Communications Considerations
Bob Brewin in nextgov has succinctly summarized the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initiation of a multibillion-dollar governmentwide procurement to purchase commercial satellite communications services to provide everything from connectivity for forces in Afghanistan to distance learning systems in the United States.
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February 16, 2010
Boeing + U.S.A.F. — GPS IIF Busts Out And Is Delivered
Boeing [NYSE: BA], on February 11th, shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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U.S.A.F. — Scintillating SBIRS Successes For GEO-2
The U.S. Air Force’s second geosynchronous Space Based Infrared Systems satellite successfully completed its first Baseline Integrated System Testing, February 10, at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California.
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February 11, 2010
SSI — Signing On For USAF Spaceport Services
Spaceport Systems International (SSI), a limited partnership between ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) and California Commercial Spaceport, Inc., has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide spaceport launch services for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Test Squadron.
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February 10, 2010
Thales Alenia Space — Dual Nation MILSATCOM Draws Development
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the French and Italian space agencies, CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil and military telecommunications satellite, Athena-Fidus.
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February 9, 2010
Stampede Technologies — Accelerating The Potency Of MilSat Nets
Stampede? Technologies, Inc., a provider of WAN optimization and acceleration solutions for satellite and terrestrial-based networks, announced they have signed an OEM agreement with Global Protocols, Inc. (GPI) for integrating SkipWare onto its FX series appliances that are designed to accelerate and optimize satellite communications for IP traffic.
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February 8, 2010
TS2 Satellite Technologies — New Services Deployed On Eutelsat Birds
TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites for the Afghan market.
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Opinion Alert — Has Obama Just Handed The Moon To China?
SatNews is publishing this compelling article written by Tim Edwards from The First Post of the U.K. — President Barack Obama's proposal to cut the $81bn funding for Nasa's Constellation manned spaceflight programme spells the end of America's attempt to return people to the moon by 2020.
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February 5, 2010
NAB's Keynote Speaker, Harris' Pres And CEO, Unlocks Cross-Over Broadcast Technology
Harris Corporation Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Howard Lance will be a keynote speaker in a morning session titled "Dual Utilization of Broadcast Technology for Industry and Government" at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 14.
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Opinion Alert — Has Obama Just Handed The Moon To China?
SatNews is publishing this compelling article written by Tim Edwards from The First Post of the U.K. — President Barack Obama's proposal to cut the $81bn funding for Nasa's Constellation manned spaceflight programme spells the end of America's attempt to return people to the moon by 2020.
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February 3, 2010
ViaSat — Secure Speak Via LinkWayS2 For MILSATCOM
ViaSat (Nasdaq:VSAT) has received additional orders for its LinkWayS2? satellite modem systems to support U.S. government networks.
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Orbital Sciences Corp. — A Nod To Obama's Space Policies
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has announced the Company’s strong support for the Obama Administration’s new direction for the country’s civil space programs, as outlined in the recently-released GFY 2011 proposed budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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February 2, 2010
Hughes — Losada Has Shipboard SATCOM On His Agenda
Dan Losada, Senior Director of the Defense & Intelligence Systems Division at Hughes, will discuss how shipboard satellite communications are critical to maintaining net-centric operations during missions at the SIA SATCOM User's Workshop.
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February 1, 2010
Comtech Xicom Technology (R)Amps Up With New Site
Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., a provider of high power amplifier products for satellite communication (SATCOM), now has an amped up new and expanded website . . .
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National Space Symposium Speaker — Erudite In Air Force Matters — NRO Director Carlson
Gen. Bruce A. Carlson, USAF (Retired), director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is slated to be a featured speaker at the 26th National Space Symposium April 12-15 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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U.S.A.F. — Financially Speaking...
Air Force officials in Washington, D.C., have reinforced their commitment to fund and support operations while posturing for future challenges through the service's portion of the president's fiscal year 2011 budget February 1st.
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CapRock Government Solutions — CommandAccess Helps Haitians Via U.S. Navy
CapRock Government Solutions has been awarded a contract with the United States Navy’s Naval Beach Group (NBG) to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti.
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Vocality International — SATCOM Router Ramped Up
Vocality International's router platform — used worldwide in armed forces and satellite communications networks — is now available in a PC/104 integrated kit.
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IDC — It's All About Support For Warfighters Via CDN (SatBroadcasting™)
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has received a contract from the Canadian Department of National Defence, (DND), valued at $2.8 million CDN for the continued operation of Canadian Forces Radio and Television, (CFRT).
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