Inmarsat‘s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch and Hughes Network Systems’ Rick Lober will participate in a panel discussion at the Satellite Industry Association’s two-day Defense Department Commercial SATCOM Workshop that will kick off Dec. 15 in Virginia. Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat; and Lober, VP and general manager of Hughes’ defense and intelligence systems division; will discuss the […] More

Seven member companies of the Digital Interface Standards Working Group will consolidate to become part of the Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium. DIS companies that will join DIFI are Communications & Power Industries, DataPath, Datum Systems, Gilat Satellite Networks, SES, ST Engineering iDirect and Wavestream, the consortium said in a Dec. 22 news release. “We […] More

Dave Bettinger, a three-decade satellite communications industry veteran, has been named CEO of Electro Optic Systems’ SpaceLink subsidiary. He will oversee the design, operations and delivery of SpaceLink's medium Earth orbit satellite relay system.

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Forcepoint has introduced a hardware platform designed to safeguard the unidirectional flow of data between two networks.

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George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that effective cross-domain defenses require barriers such as firewalls that enable smooth collaboration without exposing critical data to cyber threats.

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Communications firm Transition Networks has unveiled a new series of media converters designed to protect data for military, government and financial organizations. The company said Monday its Mini Gigabit Ethernet Unidirectional Media Converters regulate the flow of data to a single direction on network links.

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The Department of the Interior intends to award a firm-fixed-price task order of undisclosed value to ActioNet for the performance of sustainment services to the Defense Medical Information Exchange platform through the Small Business Government Wide Acquisition Contract vehicle.

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COMSAT and Speedcast International have entered into a partnership agreement to offer global network services to government and maritime customers. The joint offering will combine Speedcast’s 8+ gigahertz of global satellite capacity with COMSAT’s U.S.-based teleports to provide Ku-band very small aperture terminal services for customers that need resilient connectivity, Speedcast said Thursday. COMSAT will also deliver hosting services as well […] More

Globecomm has unveiled a managed satellite service offering intended to facilitate high-capacity broadband connectivity for fixed or mobile government and enterprise communications. The VSAT service is designed to support data and video transmission on ground, maritime and aerial platforms as well as Internet of Things-based applications, Globecomm said Monday. Jon Kirchner, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Globecomm, said the company  […] More

Inmarsat has certified L-3 Datron Advanced Technologies‘ satellite antenna products for operation on the Global Xpress broadband communications network. The companies also agreed to explore new market opportunities for satellite COTM terminals through the second phase of Inmarsat’s GX terminal development program, Inmarsat said Thursday. Peter Hadinger, Inmarsat president for its U.S. government business unit, […] More