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Raytheon Wins $13 Million Contract to Connect Military Aircraft to LEO Internet

By Rachel Jewett

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

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Raytheon Wins $13 Million Contract to Connect Military Aircraft to LEO Internet

A visualization of SpaceX's Starlink constellation in Low-Earth Orbit for internet service. (Photo: Mark Handley, University College London)

Raytheon [RTX] was awarded a $13.1 million contract for an Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at connecting military jets to emerging commercial satellite internet constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), the Pentagon said on Sept. 10. Under the contract, Raytheon is developing a phased array antenna to allow communications with satellite internet constellations. The design is for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI), or “Global Lightning,” program. According to a Raytheon release on Tuesday,…

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