Lockheed Martin Team Successfully Completes Major Design Review for TSAT Program
07 Mai 2007 - 5:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A Lockheed
Martin (NYSE:LMT)/Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) team has successfully
completed a key design review of the Transformational Satellite
Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment, signaling the team's
readiness to proceed with the next development phase of the
program. TSAT will provide thousands of users with wideband, highly
mobile, beyond line-of-sight protected communications to support
network-centric operations for the future battlefield. Nearly 300
government representatives from the U.S. Air Force Military
Satellite Communications Systems Wing and user communities,
including representatives from all services within the Department
of Defense, recently completed a three-day Space Segment Design
Review (SSDR) at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities in
Sunnyvale, Calif. During the review, the team detailed its planned
architecture and design approach for TSAT, which will employ
high-speed optical communications, Internet Protocol network
routing, and communications-on-the-move technologies to deliver a
dramatic increase in connectivity, speed, and mobility for the
warfighter. A highlight of the review was an extensive exhibit hall
that featured a number of demonstrations and exhibits that
summarized technology risk reduction efforts and the team's systems
engineering and integration expertise that is being applied to
TSAT. An integrated end-to-end systems and payload testbed
demonstrated critical communications-on-the-move and intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. "We are extremely
pleased with the outcome of this important review," said Joanne
Maguire, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
"Our TSAT solution builds upon technologies we've pioneered and
matured to provide significantly improved, flexible communications
for the warfighter. Our team is poised to help our customer achieve
mission success on this vitally important program." TSAT represents
the next step toward transitioning the Department of Defense
wideband and protected communications satellite architecture into a
single network comprising 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 command, control, and
communications nodes located on unmanned aerial vehicles, piloted
aircraft, on the ground, in the air, at sea or in space. "The
successful space segment design review represents a culmination of
a tremendous effort in risk reduction and system design by a highly
experienced MILSATCOM team, including the government and industry
participants," said Alexis Livanos, president, Northrop Grumman
Space Technology. "TSAT will serve the growing needs for
connections and capacity to military forces deployed on a global
basis and we look forward to entering the next phase of this
important program." The Lockheed Martin / Northrop Grumman TSAT
space segment team is currently working under a $514 million
contract for the Risk Reduction and System Definition phase. This
effort will culminate with a multi-billion dollar development
contract to be awarded to a single contractor in late 2007. The
Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing, located at the
Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base,
Calif., is the TSAT contract manager and lead agency for ensuring
the capabilities of this system are made available to the
warfighter. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs
about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the
research, design, development, manufacture, integration and
sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
The corporation reported 2006 sales of $39.6 billion. Contact:
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CONTACT: Steve Tatum, +1-408-742-7531, or Web site:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/
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