Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: May 22, 2023
The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) a potential $80.8 million contract to build and conduct experiments to test satellite communications systems designed to operate with space-based internet constellations operating in geostationary, medium and low-Earth orbits.
Contract work will occur in Salt Lake City under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet contract, according to an award notice published Friday.
The contractor will also provide terminals and communications platforms for testing on multiple aircraft and mobile ground vehicles and in the Arctic environment.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a competitive acquisition process.
Jim Kelly, senior systems engineering manager at HPE Juniper Networking, said agentic artificial intelligence could help government agencies move toward…
AeroVironment has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, or ESAero, a producer of unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility platforms, or AAM,…