WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Raytheon Technologies (RTX) a $51.7 million contract to develop satellite communications antennas for military aircraft, the Department of Defense announced Aug. 29.
The three-year contract falls under the Commercial Space Internet Defense Experimentation Program (DEUCSI), which aims to create advanced satellite communications networks leveraging commercial space internet constellations such as Starlink, OneWeb, SES's O3b, and others.
Under the contract, Raytheon will develop high-performance, multi-band satellite communications antennas that can be integrated into a variety of military aircraft.
The DEUCSI program is part of a broader initiative to improve the U.S. military’s ability to seamlessly share information across ground, sea and air forces.
Raytheon and other defense contractors, including L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, are developing antennas and supporting technologies to provide military users with access to commercial Internet services in low, medium and geostationary orbits using a common set of user terminal hardware.
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