The US Space Force has awarded Boeing a $298.37 million contract to build a satellite prototype payload and develop hardware and software for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) programme.
Work will be performed in El Segundo, California, for completion by May 2025.
ESS will replace legacy Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin will be developing competing designs for the ESS programme.
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Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
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