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Raytheon, SpiderOak Partner To Secure LEO Satellite Communications

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

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Raytheon, SpiderOak Partner To Secure LEO Satellite Communications

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Raytheon Technologies [RTX] this week said it has formed a strategic partnership with SpiderOak, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for space systems, to develop and field new zero-trust systems for satellite communications in proliferated low-Earth orbit (pLEO). Raytheon’s BBN business unit will bring its distributed, disrupted, disconnected and denied secure cloud solution and SpiderOak its OrbitSecure solution to offer customers resilient mesh networks in contested environments. Raytheon said the combined solution can be applied across multi-vendor constellations. “This partnership is…

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