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Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System

Northrop Grumman has turned overÂ aÂ mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial productionÂ contract awarded in October 2014. The company said TuesdayÂ itsÂ AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented RadarÂ will replace five legacyÂ radarsÂ being used by Marines and the system’sÂ architecture worksÂ toÂ interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATORÂ is designed to detect, track andÂ engage a range […] More

by Scott Nicholas May 10, 2017, 8:17 am
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Lockheed Integrates TrellisWare Embedded Software Into Quadrotor UAS

Lockheed Martin has integrated aÂ TrellisWare Technologies-madeÂ software platform into a quadrotor unmanned aerial system designed forÂ military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Indago 3 UAS is equipped with TrellisWare’s TW-600 Ocelot module as well as an updatedÂ propulsion technology, a military-grade data link, a mechanism forÂ video dissemination and an extended-range radio system, Lockheed said Monday. “We are […] More

by Scott Nicholas May 9, 2017, 3:45 am
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Mike Poth: FirstNet, AT&T Aim to Deliver Draft State Plans for Public Safety Broadband Network by June

The First Responder Network AuthorityÂ and AT&T have begun to develop state plans and an online portal to transmit such plans to states and U.S. territories under a 25-year public-private partnership to launch a national public safety broadband network for first responders. FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said MondayÂ AT&T and the agency have started to discuss the […] More

by Jane Edwards May 3, 2017, 5:15 am
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Cubic Units to Showcase C4ISR, Training Products Designed for Special Ops Forces

Cubic‘s mission solutions and global defense businessesÂ will participate in the upcoming Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida to demonstrate a range of C4ISR and training platforms designedÂ for the SOF community. Cubic said Wednesday it will showcase products such as theÂ Atlas Baseband Kit, satellite communications terminals, data links, networkingÂ systems and the Unified Video real-time streaming […] More

by Elizabeth de la Cruz May 3, 2017, 12:00 am
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Matt Desch: 1st Iridium â€˜NEXTâ€™ Satellite Batch Entered Service

Iridium CommunicationsÂ CEO Matt Desch has said eight of the first 10 Iridium NEXTÂ satellites that took off in January began to provide data and voice transmission service between March and mid-April, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. Stephen Clark writes Desch said at a quarterly earnings call Thursday that engineers have begun to reposition the two other satellites […] More

by Jane Edwards May 1, 2017, 9:37 am
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US Navy Taps Canadian Commercial Corp. for Electro-Optics Sensor Procurement IDIQ

Canadian Commercial Corp. has been awarded aÂ potential $49.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the U.S. Navy to provide electro-optics sensor systems for the Military Sealift Command Situational Awareness System program. The Defense Department said Thuesday that the MSC-EOS systems will be installed on maritime platforms of the Military Sealift Command,Â U.S. Coast Guard and Navy. MSC-EOS is […] More

by Scott Nicholas April 28, 2017, 3:15 am
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Sensofusion to Develop Counter-UAS Mobile System for Marine Corps

The U.S. Marine Corps and the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental have awardedÂ Sensofusion a contract to further develop a mobile platform designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems. Sensofusion said Thursday itsÂ Airfence mobile system will serve as the core of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s mobile counter-UAS system as well as support Marines’ efforts to […] More

by Ramona Adams April 26, 2017, 3:00 am
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Lockheed-Built MUOS-5 Delivers Beyond-Line-of-Sight Comms Service to Soldiers

The fifth Mobile User Objective SystemÂ satelliteÂ that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Navy has begun to provide beyond-line-of-sight communications capability to warfighters with ultra-high frequency radios. Lockheed said Monday the Navy collaborated with the Army Forces Strategic Command to configure the UHF payload of the MUOS-5 satellite to provide UHF narrowband communications services to troops […] More

by Jane Edwards April 25, 2017, 2:30 am
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Lockheed Completes Preliminary Long-Range Radar Design Review

Lockheed Martin has completed the preliminary design review of a radar system designed to safeguard the U.S. from ballistic missile threats. The company developed the Long Range Discrimination Radar under a potential $784 million contractÂ the Missile Defense Agency awarded in October 2015, Lockheed said Thursday. The LRDR platform is an S-band radar component of MDA’s […] More

by Jane Edwards April 21, 2017, 5:25 am
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SES Unveils Satcom-Based Vehicle for Defense, Disaster Response Missions

Luxembourg-based geostationary satellite operatorÂ SESÂ has launched a satellite communication-based vehicle platform that works to provide high-speed connectivity and communication services in support of defense, humanitarian, commercial and civil missions. Nicole Robinson, corporate vice president of government market solutions at SES, said in a statement released Thursday the Rapid Response Vehicle is designed to provide multi-orbit, multi-band […] More

by Jane Edwards April 21, 2017, 2:01 am
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Raytheon Moves GPS OCX Launch, Checkout System Qualification Testing to USAF Site; Dave Wajsgras Comments

Raytheon has begun to move the site-specific acceptance and qualification testing phase of the launch-and-checkout platform for the U.S. Air Forceâ€™s GPSÂ Next-Generation Operational Control System from the companyâ€™s factory to Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. The company said Wednesday the move came after the LCS system reached a score of 97.7 percent in a […] More

by Jane Edwards April 20, 2017, 5:20 am
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Inmarsatâ€™s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Commercial Satcom Services’ Interoperability With Military Satcom

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy atÂ Inmarsat, saidÂ in an interview aired Monday on Federal News Radio that commercial satellite communications services play a critical role in military communications amid delays and other challenges facing military satcom programs. Cowen-Hirsch told Federal Tech Talk host John GilroyÂ that a commercial satcom service is designed […] More

by Jane Edwards April 19, 2017, 7:06 am