Lockheed Martin Team Successfully Completes Key Design Milestone for Transformational Communications Program
06 Juillet 2005 - 5:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Lockheed Martin Team Successfully Completes Key Design Milestone
for Transformational Communications Program SUNNYVALE, Calif., July
6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT)/Northrop
Grumman (NYSE:NOC) team announced today the successful completion
of a major system design review of the Transformational Satellite
Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment program. TSAT will
provide thousands of users with wideband, highly mobile, beyond
line-of-sight protected connectivity to support network-centric
operations for the future battlefield. More than 200 government
representatives from the U.S. Air Force MILSATCOM Joint Program
Office and user communities, including representatives from all
services within the Department of Defense, recently completed a
three-day Interim Space Segment Design Review (ISSDR) at Lockheed
Martin Space Systems facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. During the
review, the team reviewed in detail its planned architecture and
design approach for the system, and summarized results of risk
reduction efforts. A highlight of the review was an extensive
exhibit hall that featured brass board-level hardware,
demonstrations of key technologies, and displays summarizing
performance, mission scenarios, and user benefits. The TSAT
end-to-end network test bed was configured with three TSAT
payloads, interconnected with a high-speed Synchronous Optical
Network (SONET) backbone, two Special Operations satellite
terminals and a Brigade Combat Team satellite terminal. "The
important review successfully demonstrated our technological
readiness and how our integrated TSAT solution will bring
significantly improved communications performance and unique
transformational capabilities to the warfighter," said Rick
Skinner, vice president, transformational communications for
Lockheed Martin. "We look forward to working with our customer in
our collective effort to provide our men and women in uniform with
the tools they need to prevail on tomorrow's asymmetric,
distributed battlefield." TSAT represents the next step toward
transitioning the Department of Defense wideband and protected
communications satellite architecture into a single network
comprised of multiple satellite, ground, and user segment
components. The system ultimately will replace the Milstar and
Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programs and provide the
Global Information Grid network extension to mobile warfighters;
sensors; weapons; and communications, command and control nodes
located on UAVs, piloted aircraft, on the ground, in the air, at
sea or in space. "A strong partnership between industry and
government combined with a disciplined system engineering and risk
management process explains the tremendous progress we've made,"
said Stuart Linsky, program manager, transformational
communications for Northrop Grumman. "It is most gratifying to see
the users embrace our innovative TSAT space segment solutions and
see for themselves that we are executing on the plan to deliver
these critical, mission-enabling capabilities." The Lockheed
Martin/Northrop Grumman T-SAT team, which includes ViaSat, Rockwell
Collins, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, L-3
Communications, Stratogis and Caspian Networks is currently working
under a $514 million contract to conduct risk reduction
demonstrations and system trade studies over a 32-month period.
This effort will culminate with a multi-billion dollar development
contract to be awarded to a single contractor in 2006.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about
130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the
research, design, development, manufacture and integration of
advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation
reported 2004 sales of $35.5 billion. For additional information on
Lockheed Martin Corporation, visit: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/
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