Tag Archives: SATCOM

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $65.2M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide systems and services to facilitate interoperability between a narrowband military communication satellite network and an ultra high frequency satcom gateway.

The Space Force has awarded a $240M contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and a $191M contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) to develop payloads to help the service branch secure military satellite communications. The two companies will help the new service branch develop Protected Tactical Satcom payloads for a family-of-systems architecture designed to provide anti-jam, beyond line-of-sight communications to tactical warfighters, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.

Peraton has secured a potential $218.6M blanket purchase agreement covering satellite communications services to U.S. African Command and its mission partners.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a potential $442.3M contract to design and develop a terminal intended to support aircraft communications via the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite constellation.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 30, 2019 — Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, said the company added a satellite to the Global Xpress 5 constellation to address a demand for commercial broadband services in the Middle East and Europe, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 20.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential five-year, $100M contract to update 1.2-meter-aperture satellite communications terminals for the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Centurum has won a potential $98.9M contract to provide satellite communications support for the U.S. Navy’s ashore and shipboard installations.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) received a potential five-year, $39M contract to provide radio frequency monitoring services to support commercial and military satellites that deploy bandwidth leased by the U.S. government.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential 10-year, $3.3B contract to provide logistics and orbital operations support for the service’s Milstar, Advanced Extremely High Frequency and Defense Satellite Communications System III programs.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has been chosen to provide a cryptographic component intended to secure space-based satellite communication hubs under the U.S. Air Force’s Protected Tactical Satcom SHIELD program.