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SEAKR to Work With Lockheed Martin on Space Force PTS

By Rachel Jewett

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

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SEAKR to Work With Lockheed Martin on Space Force PTS

An illustration of protected military communications satellite. Photo: Lockheed Martin

SEAKR Engineering has been selected to join Lockheed Martin’s team to help design and build a prototype payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satellite Communications, or PTS, program. SEAKR Engineering will collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the system’s space digital processor. The company aims to demonstrate PTS anti-jam capabilities and requirements by building on the advanced Radio Frequency (RF) processing technologies in its Wolverine RF processing platform. PTS is a next-generation capability to give warfighters jam-resistant satcom. The…

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