The 450RM operates on iDirectGov’s Evolution Defense, Viasat GX, SES Flex and DVB-S2X networks, as well as the military-standard 188/165B Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM). It supports operations across geostationary (GEO), highly elliptical (HEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, while maintaining the highest security standards.

Designed for space-constricted environments, the half-rack unit allows two 450RMs to be mounted side-by-side in the rack, minimizing rack space requirements while providing a protected, durable form factor.

“The 450RM is resilient, secure and flexible to suit our troops’ satellite communications at the tactical edge,” said Tim Winter, iDirectGov president. “Its multi-technology architecture delivers optimized performance and efficient operations.”

The 450RM is powered by the 4‑Series SDM architecture, which integrates iDirectGov’s Communication Signal Interference Removal (CSIR) technology and a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-140-3 Level 3 approved Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cryptographic engine for secure, resilient communications. This architecture enables a TRANSEC‑compliant network design that exceeds U.S. government standards and delivers high‑quality voice, video and data across contested environments.

Source: iDirectGov

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“With this acquisition, York is creating a complete communications ecosystem that operates in contested environments across commercial and government networks,” said Dirk Wallinger, CEO of York. “The addition of ALL.SPACE brings a world-class team whose proven leadership and technical excellence will be key as we scale these capabilities for our customers.”

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, with operations in Europe and the United States, ALL.SPACE developed its high-performance, software-defined Hydra Terminal Range to enable simultaneous multi-link, multi-orbit, and multi-band connectivity across LEO, MEO, GEO, and HEO networks.

The platform provides resilient, network agnostic communications for platforms on the move, enabling reliable connectivity across space, air, land, and maritime domains. ALL.SPACE’s technology is purpose-built to ensure connectivity is maintained in dynamic and contested environments, particularly for mobile platforms operating in unpredictable conditions.

“What sets ALL.SPACE apart is their ability to ensure complex, multi-network connectivity is maintained even when systems are on the move,” said Melanie Preisser, EVP and GM of York. “They’ve built a capability that has consistently performed in real operational conditions, making them a natural fit and a powerful addition to the solutions we bring to our customers.”

ALL.SPACE’s smart terminal platform delivers turnkey, on-the-move connectivity, enabling communications to operate across multiple simultaneous pathways, improving resilience by reducing reliance on any single network and maintaining connectivity in contested environments.

“ALL.SPACE was built to ensure connectivity doesn’t fail when it matters most,” said Paul McCarter, CEO of ALL.SPACE. “Demand is accelerating for resilient communications in complex operational environments, and our technology is proven to deliver in those conditions. Partnering with York allows us to scale that capability and deliver it to an even broader set of missions.”

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Vindlér detects and geo-locates targeted RF emissions, enabling operators to identify and track items of interest for enhanced situational awareness and decision making in complex environments. The technology is specifically designed to address a growing national security and commercial need for timely, precise RF data.

In partnership with Muon Space, SNC launched three satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission last month. SNC continued working closely with the space systems provider to conduct satellite tracking, initiate orbital maneuvering and confirm full payload aliveness within 30 days of launch. SNC also confirmed it has successfully tasked all payload collections and begun data delivery—continuing the company’s long-established leadership in providing digital RF solutions and data streaming directly to the warfighter.

“We are excited that our Vindlér 2.0 design is already proving to be successful,” said Lisa Godenick, senior vice president of strategy at SNC. “This architecture enables the military to receive critical data from space within minutes, anywhere around the world. At a time where speed is relevance and information is dominance, SNC is continuously investing in ways to improve the quality and speed of our data.”

Leveraging a more than 60-year legacy of RF, electronic warfare systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, SNC’s Vindlér technology can simultaneously detect a wide range of emitters from VHF to Ka-band with high accuracy and throughputs rivaling or exceeding entire competitor constellations. Critical applications include GPS jamming and spoofing detection, maritime domain awareness, dark vessel tracking and more in support of national security efforts. This technology is particularly critical when evaluating operations in contested or denied access environments.

SNC is now advancing designs for future Vindlér launches, with a focus on strengthening data fidelity, accuracy and mission resilience. Over the next several years, the company plans to increase the constellation to more than 20 satellites, all of which will collect additional RF bands and provide multiple revisits throughout the day.

Source: SNC

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“The proven operational performance of our 35-centimeter Gen-3 satellites is driving long-term commitments from major government customers that require mission critical intelligence from an industry-leading space-based intelligence platform,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “With four Gen-3 satellites on orbit, BlackSky is now rapidly deploying Gen-3 capacity and driving up backlog and annual recurring revenue from our high margin space-based intelligence and AI services business.”

The agreement will leverage BlackSky’s Spectra capabilities and the Gen-3 constellation in support of the customer’s strategic and tactical maritime domain awareness mission applications. This customer has quickly incorporated capacity from BlackSky’s most recent Gen-3 satellite, which rapidly commissioned in less than a week following launch last month. With four Gen-3 satellites now on orbit, BlackSky has opened general availability to its global customer base.

“This Early Access Gen-3 On-Demand customer transitioned to a new, multi-year Assured contract after validating BlackSky’s ability to provide committed capacity over their region of interest with reliable, low-latency mission-critical imagery and analytics,” O’Toole said. “Through this partnership, BlackSky continues to successfully execute our land-and-expand strategy and is committed to providing our customers unparalleled strategic and tactical situational awareness at industry-leading speed, scale and economics.”

Assured services enable guaranteed access and priority tasking capacity through BlackSky’s proprietary, dynamic monitoring constellation over the customer’s national and regional areas of interest. Assured is also the first commercially available imagery and analytics tasking service to offer guaranteed collection commitments. With the improved image clarity of Gen-3, BlackSky’s proprietary AI algorithms automate identification and classification of an expanded set of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of tactical relevance at machine speed.

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This satellite platform is offered in two common-core variants, both supporting autonomous RPO and interchangeable payload units for any mission profile. NGSD Vanguard offers the lowest cost solution, delivering the same RPO capability in a compact, high-throughput package ideal for shorter missions or rapidly refreshed constellations. NGSD Sentinel leverages the same common architecture but adds a larger power budget, higher performance propulsion and optional refueling to support enduring missions. Both variants share a common core while providing mission-specific performance through modular payload integration.

“Our customers are not always able to wait years for custom-made satellites. They want proven, production-ready capability that can be delivered on a deadline that aligns with the operational timeline of their mission,” said Tim Lynch, mission strategy and advanced capabilities vice president, Lockheed Martin Space. “NGSD is our answer. It’s a light, lean, agile platform that delivers the performance of a heritage spacecraft while eliminating the bottlenecks that have traditionally slowed the industry.”

“From civil science to national security constellations, NGSD brings the principles of Dynamic Space Operations (DSO) into a scalable, production-ready satellite bus platform for Space Domain Awareness and a wide range of civil, commercial and defense missions,” added Peter Krauss, CEO, Terran Orbital. “It enables faster deployment, reduces risk and delivers a more cost-effective path to orbit at the scale our customers need.”

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Project Constellation enables the engineering and testing of a software-only, on-orbit cyber defense capability designed to be deployed to satellites already in orbit and to improve the cyber resiliency of legacy satellites. Deloitte-1 launched in March 2025 and has traveled more than 150-million miles providing flight heritage for Deloitte’s on-orbit cyber defense capability, Silent Shield.

Government agencies and commercial clients rely on space for daily communications, navigation and monitoring. As that reliance grows, they require fresh data from orbiting satellites that are secure and dependable. Through Project Constellation, Deloitte is expanding space data capacity and engineering mission-specific payloads to deliver on-orbit cyber protections. A key advantage is delivering software-defined cyber defense and analytics upgrades in orbit, helping extend the resilience of existing satellite fleets without waiting for a new launch. This client-first, mission-driven approach aims to meet the growing need for space-based data insights and resilient on-orbit cyber protections, while further strengthening Deloitte’s presence across testing, engineering, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), data and cyber.

“Deloitte-2 and Deloitte-3 go far beyond proving a concept; we’re scaling our space capabilities to help our clients achieve their critical missions. This includes engineering differentiated payloads and the software that brings the data to life, expanding our space sensing and maturing Silent Shield to strengthen cyber resiliency in orbit. The result is more trusted space data and stronger on-orbit protections, so organizations can make faster, mission-focused decisions with even greater confidence,” said Brett Loubert, U.S. Space practice leader, Deloitte.

Source: Deloitte

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“CACI’s long-standing relationship with NIWC Atlantic and our commitment to continuous innovation reflect how seriously we take this responsibility. We remain dedicated to ensuring our customers and warfighters receive the best care possible, when and where they need it the most,” said John Mengucci, CACI president and chief executive officer. “Our secure, reliable communications enable rapid response, keeping operators connected in high-pressure situations so they can execute critical missions when the stakes are highest.”

Under this latest task order, CACI will offer systems engineering, network and software engineering, systems certification, technology evaluation, integration and testing, training, maintenance, logistics, and lifecycle sustainment management to provide warfighters with high-quality equipment when and where they need it most, anywhere in the world. CACI’s highly efficient logistics team is dedicated to accuracy and reducing shipping time, getting equipment into the hands of warfighters as quickly as possible.

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For decades, space-based intelligence has forced a tradeoff: you could either see the world in high detail or monitor it continuously, but not both. This expansion to Vantor’s constellation, which already delivers the most accurate and high-resolution imagery on orbit, eliminates that tradeoff for the first time.

These new satellites, Vantor Vantage and Vantor Pulse, build on the success of Vantor’s state-of-the-art WorldView Legion program, which doubled collection capacity, introduced dawn-to-dusk monitoring, and set a new benchmark for commercial imaging performance. Legion satellites are already supporting high-priority missions for customers around the world, delivering the scale, accuracy, and reliability required for operational missions.

With Legion, Vantor’s constellation can collect over 3.5 million square kilometers of highly accurate 30 cm-class imagery daily and revisit the same location on Earth up to 15 times per day. The expanded fleet will further increase this collection capacity while improving revisit rates five-fold, unlocking imaging of the same location on Earth as frequently as every 15 minutes.

These capabilities enable a continuously updated, real-time view of the world in 2D and 3D—allowing customers to detect change, maintain up-to-date maps, track activity, and predict emerging threats at machine speed.

Vantor expects to bring the first Pulse satellites online as soon as 2027, followed by the first two Vantage satellites as soon as 2029.

“Vantage and Pulse usher in a new era of space-based intelligence—it’s the first time that governments and businesses can get both detailed imaging and real-time monitoring from a single commercial system,” said Dan Smoot, Vantor CEO. “That fundamentally changes how intelligence is generated and used. Instead of choosing between accuracy and speed, customers can seamlessly collect, fuse, and deploy our multi-class intelligence within their sovereign systems, turning space-based data into a real-time operational capability.”

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VADM Whitworth brings decades of leadership across the U.S. defense and intelligence communities. Most recently, he served as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from June 2022 until his retirement in late 2025, where he led the delivery of geospatial intelligence to support national security operations worldwide. Notably, he oversaw the maturation of NGA Maven, the Department of Defense’s primary initiative for operationalizing AI and Machine Learning, transitioning the program from an experimental framework into a critical operational capability that significantly increased the speed and scale of intelligence analysis.

In his role as strategic advisor, VADM Whitworth will advise Satellogic on strategic engagement with global customers, the development of the company’s product and technology roadmap, and the integration of high-frequency Earth observation into modern intelligence architectures.

His appointment comes as Satellogic expands its capabilities in persistent Earth observation and deepens its engagement with defense and intelligence customers globally.

“Access to timely geospatial intelligence is foundational to national security,” said Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and co-founder of Satellogic. “VADM Whitworth has led this mission at the highest level. His experience will help us align our capabilities with evolving defense and intelligence requirements.”

The market is shifting from episodic collection to continuous monitoring across large operational environments. Satellogic’s vertically integrated model is designed to deliver persistent, global coverage and intelligence at scale.

“I know the capabilities of our adversaries, the complexities of assessing global threats, and the resulting imperative for persistent monitoring,” said VDAM Whitworth. “Satellogic’s constellation is designed to address that imperative by combining scale, frequency, and resolution.”z

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Contrivian Constellation dynamically orchestrates traffic across Starlink, Amazon Leo, and other satellite systems in real time, operating as a unified connectivity layer across multiple satellite networks. Constellation ensures continuous connectivity even during network congestion, degradation, or full network outages. It is powered by proprietary software that eliminates both single-constellation dependency and multi-provider operational complexity.

“For years, satellite connectivity has been treated as best effort. That doesn’t work when you’re coordinating disaster response, transmitting critical healthcare data, monitoring energy infrastructure, or keeping remote operations online. When a connection drops, the consequences are real. We built Contrivian Constellation to eliminate that risk, bringing resilience and performance standards we expect from terrestrial networks into LEO,” said Grant Kirkwood, CEO at Contrivian. “If you rely on satellite for mission-critical operations, it shouldn’t feel fragile. It should just work. Connectivity is the solution, but performance is the point.”

Built on the company’s Lighthouse technology, the platform continuously measures path performance across each constellation and dynamically steers traffic over the best-performing links. This real-time coordination maintains session stability, prevents disruption during network events, and allows critical applications to operate without interruption.

“With Contrivian Constellation, we’ve engineered an active-active model where all available LEO paths are continuously measured and optimized in real time. Depending on configuration, traffic steering occurs in a matter of hundreds of milliseconds so that live sessions remain intact, even when changing underlying LEO connections. This isn’t about faster session recovery. It eliminates disruption entirely,” said Tom Daly, principal Technologist at Contrivian.

Contrivian supports enterprise and government connectivity with more than 600 global carrier relationships and reach in 160 countries. The company operates 24×7 global network operations coverage with engineering teams across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia, managing complex multi-access environments spanning fiber, broadband, LTE/5G, and LEO satellite.

Source: Contrivian

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