
Hughes Network Systems, LLC and Airbus signed an agreement to expand their partnership to include growing international tactical military communications requirements, the companies said Tuesday. Under the new agreement Airbus will distribute all models of the Hughes HM System, a satellite networking technology engineered around a software-definable modem (SDM) and scrambled code multiple access (SCMA) waveform. The HM System terminals are set to operate over Airbus’ Skynet X-band military communications satellite.Hughes, headquartered near Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Md., provides satellite broadband…