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Raytheon Awarded $2.4 Million For Advance Satellite Communications

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

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Raytheon’s [RTN] BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and integrate an information architecture for wireless small module satellites, the company recently said. The award is part of the System F6 program and will support secure real-time communications among satellite modules. More specifically, the F6 program is to replace today's large satellites with clusters of less costly small modules that carry and share resources over a wireless network. When complete,…

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