United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rocket lifted off Friday carrying the U.S. Air Force’s satellite communications platform designed to support U.S. forces and allied troops.
The U.S. Army has certified iDirect Government's satellite routers and line cards to support military communications via the Wideband Global SATCOM constellation.
United Launch Alliance launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard the Delta IV Heavy rocket in support of the agency's national defense mission.
The U.S. Air Force has begun to develop new software and ground system to protect military satellite communications equipment operating through the service’s Wideband Global Satcom system from cyber threats, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The service has started to work on anti-jam communications software – Protected Tactical Waveform – and ground platform –  Protected Tactical Enterprise Service […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the government should direct appropriations toward efforts that leverage commercial satellite communication platforms to establish an integrated satcom architecture. “For 2019, a strong leadership is needed to apply funding resources to take full advantage of the forward-looking architecture that commercial satellite operators […] More
Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce has said the company has launched a new program that aims to develop new spacecraft to build up its fleets of Ka– and L-band satellites in an effort to meet demand, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Pearce said Wednesday at an earnings call that the GX Flex program, which is now in the […] More
Boeing aims to accelerate its production of the 11th and 12th Wideband Global Satcom satellites as the U.S. military plans to enhance its space assets, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The Chicago-based aerospace company will conduct the effort using the $600 million fund that Congress added into the Pentagon’s 2018 budget. Rico Attanasio, director of Department of […] More
The U.S. Army has unveiled a Northrop Grumman-built training system designed to educate soldiers on the management and operations of the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite communications program. Northrop said Wednesday the Wideband Training and Certification System is accessible on workstations at the Army Cyber Center of Excellence in Fort Gordon, Georgia. WTCS graduates will be assigned to […] More
A $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2018 would allocate approximately $600 million in funds to support the development of two new Wideband Global Satcom satellites for the Defense Department, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. The budget allocation for the WGS program will be a boon to Boeing, which has secured approximately $4 billion in […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, said in a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions podcast aired Wednesday that satellite communications as a service works to provide military and commercial users with a “full end-to-end†communications capability. Cowen-Hirsch told Constellations podcast moderator John Gilroy that a satcom-as-a-service model is designed […] More
L3 Technologies has secured a contract to provide satellite communications terminals and on-site training services to the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability teams of the U.S. Air National Guard. The company said Monday it is scheduled to deliver 46 Hawkeye III Lite very small aperture terminals to JISCC groups in the fourth quarter of 2017. Hawkeye VSATs […] More