Rockwell Collins has been selected as the ground terminal expert for the risk reduction and system definition phase of the US Air Force's Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) space segment.
Rockwell Collins will support the team's terminal engineering and waveform working groups.
The selection was made by the Lockheed Martin /Northrop Grumman team.
TCM will provide users with beyond line-of-sight protected communications to support the future battlefield. It is a step toward the US government's goal of developing a space-based and ground communications network
Greg Churchill, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Rockwell Collins government systems, says: "Rockwell Collins brings considerable MILSATCOM programme expertise to the Lockheed Martin/North Grumman TCM space segment team. This contract award reinforces our leadership role in the development of next-generation communication systems for our government customers."
Source: Flight Daily News