Archive for the 'Lockheed Martin' Category
Oct 09, 2009, post by Satellite News
The U.S. Joint Forces Command awarded a Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] team a $29 million contract for Valiant Angel, a new system that will apply highly advanced broadcasting technologies to help commanders collect, manage, process, exploit and disseminate full-motion video. The system will give commanders better visibility into the vast amounts of real-time and archived video, which is collected from manned and unmanned aircraft and ground-based sensors.
Under the contract, a team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] and NetApp will design and integrate a new system to manage the video processing, exploitation and dissemination cycle. Valiant Angel will provide a number of new capabilities to the warfighter. The system will collect and store incoming video streams from a variety of sensors in a secure, networked database — categorize and manage videos by keyword, geographic region or other items of interest — fuse intelligence data from multiple sources into incoming video streams.
The Valiant Angel system will incorporate tools and technologies from two existing systems: Lockheed Martin’s Audacity™ video analysis system, and Harris Corporation’s Full-Motion Video Asset Management System, or FAME™. The two companies previously integrated the tools together under a collaborative research and development agreement, informed in April. NetApp will integrate their Data ONTAP high-capacity storage technology with the Valiant Angel system. Data ONTAP is a flexible, high-performance storage architecture that can scale to 24 servers with a total of 14 petabytes of capacity.
Oct 06, 2009, post by Satellite News
A nexgen (and secret) satellite, designed and crafted by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. government, is performing as required following its successful launch from Cape Canaveral on September 8th aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, with the Lockheed Martin team successfully completing a series of key activities toward providing the spacecraft for customer use.
The program, designated PAN, was awarded to Lockheed Martin in October of 2006. It consists of a novel and robust turnkey commercial-based satellite, ground and launch system solution developed to meet the government’s future needs. The PAN satellite is based on Lockheed Martin’s configure-to-order A2100 spacecraft series and leverages mature commercial space technologies and extraordinary Lockheed Martin processes that enabled delivery of a high-quality, low-cost solution with reduced cycle times for the government clients.
Oct 05, 2009, post by Satellite News
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed acoustic testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite. The Advanced EHF system will deliver survivable, highly secure, protected, global communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense.
During the test, the fully integrated space vehicle (SV-2) was subjected to the acoustic levels expected during launch into orbit. The successful test, conducted at Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the last of the critical environmental test phases for SV-2 that validates the overall satellite design, quality of workmanship, and survivability of the space vehicle launch and on-orbit environment and is now the second AEHF satellite that has completed this critical test phase. With the completion of spacecraft acoustic testing, the team of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., the AEHF prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif., the payload supplier, will now perform final integrated spacecraft and system test activities necessary to prepare the vehicle for flight. The second AEHF is scheduled for launch in 2011 aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle. The first AEHF satellite (SV-1) is planned for a launch in 2010.
One AEHF satellite will deliver greater total capacity than the entire Milstar constellation currently on-orbit. Individual user data rates will be five times improved. The higher data rates will permit transmission of tactical military communications, such as real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data. In addition to its tactical mission, AEHF will provide the critical survivable, protected, and endurable communications to the National Command Authority, including presidential conferencing in all levels of conflict.
