The Defense Logistics Agency has added DataPath as an awardee on a 10-year, $3.2 billion contract vehicle for command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance supplies and services, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Duluth, Georgia-based DataPath joins a group of nine vendors that were awarded positions on the C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment […] More

DataPath has incorporated an Optimal Satcom-built software tool into its MaxView Enterprise network management software to equip the latter with automated satellite capacity and ground network configuration features.

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DataPath has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications platforms and services for homeland defense and civil support missions.

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Leidos has awarded DataPath a subcontract to provide hardware and software Integration services for a National Science Foundation-managed government communications program in the Atlantic region.

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Inmarsat has cleared the DataPath-built QCT90 manpack antenna for use on the Global Xpress satellite broadband network’s commercial Ka-band frequencies. The Type Approval allows DataPath to offer a subscription-based high-throughput connectivity service to its customers as a GX service provider, Inmarsat said Thursday. Andy Start, president of Inmarsat’s global government business, said QCT90 is designed to provide users access to global GX satellite coverage with […] More

A U.S. government agency has purchased access to the Inmarsat Global Xpress satellite communications service via a sales agreement with field communications firm DataPath to represent the latter company’s first such deal in the federal market. Inmarsat’s GX network resides in the Ka frequency band and is designed to support voice, video and data applications in operating environments, DataPath said Friday. DataPath […] More

Remote field communications firm DataPath will act as a provider of Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress satellite communications service to U.S. military and government customers for expeditionary use. The companies said Monday a service provider agreement between DataPath and Inmarsat Government — the British satellite services firm’s U.S. government subsidiary — covers bundled offerings in cybersecurity, IT, global field support and network operations center […] More

Rockwell Collins and DataPath have partnered to develop global communication systems in support of the U.S. Army’s positioning, navigation and risk reduction efforts. Mike Jones, vice president and general manager of communication and navigation products for Rockwell Collins, said Wednesday the companies would build pseudolite systems with the goal to help the Army deploy positioning, navigation […] 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

John Sciberras, former strategy, analysis and marketing head at DataPath, has joined technology firm Envistacom to serve as vice president of marketing.

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Julie Ann Phinney, a senior business development executive at CACI International, has joined Ensco as a director. Phinney will serve as business development director of Ensco’s aerospace sciences and engineering division, the company said Thursday. “She is a seasoned business development professional and has spent a great deal of her career pursuing and working programs […] More

Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division has worked with partners Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and DataPath to test the video transmission capability of its satellite communications system for airborne platforms. Hughes said Monday the test demonstrated the real-time transmission of high-definition video from a NorthStar Aviation Bell 407MRH helicopter via Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress I-5 F2 satellite. “High-definition […] More