Raytheon Selects CAES Technology For Low Earth Orbit Satellite Demonstration
ARLINGTON, VA. (BUSINESS WIRE)
CAES, a leading provider of advanced mission critical electronic solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop and provide RF signal conversion technology for use in a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory program. The Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) or Global Lightning program seeks to connect military aircraft to emerging commercial satellite internet constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). CAES will provide multi-band block frequency converters for design into a new Raytheon phased array antenna, and will allow communications with satellite internet constellations and aircraft to seamlessly jump between different satellites. The program culminates with a flight demonstration in 2022.
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Raytheon Selects CAES Technology for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Demonstration
May 10, 2021 GMT
ARLINGTON, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) May 10, 2021
CAES, a leading provider of advanced mission critical electronic solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop and provide RF signal conversion technology for use in a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory program. The Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) or Global Lightning program seeks to connect military aircraft to emerging commercial satellite internet constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). CAES will provide multi-band block frequency converters for design into a new Raytheon phased array antenna, and will allow communications with satellite internet constellations and aircraft to seamlessly jump between different satellites. The program culminates with a flight demonstr
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GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) Follow-On (OCX 3F).
The OCX 3F program is further future iteration of the GPS Enterprise Modernization effort. OCX comes in four blocks: 0, 1, 2 and now 3F. Only Block 0 is currently operative, though it does not “fly” the constellation, it only handles Launch and Early Orbit (LEO) operations and the on-orbit checkout of all GPS III satellites. I has done so for four GPS III satellites so far. A fifth launch is due in June.
[Photo: GPS ground antenna at Schriever Air Force Base, home of the 50th Space Wing. Courtesy Raytheon]
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Raytheon to Support U.S. Air Force’s Intelligence Program Under $175M Contract Our Bureau 634
Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS)
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will provide signals intelligence field services for the U.S. Air Force s Distributed Common Ground System, which collects, processes and analyzes intelligence.
RI&S will support seven different intelligence applications the Air Force uses to collect and correlate data under the new program, DCGS-Signals Intelligence Field Support (DSFS). The five-year contract, valued up to $175 million, will combine information from airborne, ground and other systems. Gone are the days of planning daily sustainment operations site-by-site. Now DSFS provides an enterprise support structure for all sustainment operations, optimizing mission coverage with fewer field engineers, said David Appel, vice president, Defense and Civil Solutions for Raytheon Intelligence & Space.