Boeing Joins Mobile User Objective System Team

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The Mobile User Objective System is being developed as a replacement to the UFO (UHF Follow On) constellation for IOC in 2007. It will provide global SATCOM narrowband (64kpbs and below) connectivity for voice, video and data for US and Allied services.

Sunnyvale - Jan 16, 2003
Lockheed Martin today announced that Boeing Satellite Systems has joined its team in the competition to develop the U.S. Navy's next generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, known as the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).

The team, composed of Lockheed Martin Space & Strategic Missiles, Sunnyvale, Calif., General Dynamics Decision Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, Calif., will compete for the multi-billion dollar Pre-Acquisition System Definition and Risk Reduction/Acquisition and Operations phases of the MUOS contract, scheduled to be awarded by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif. in first quarter 2004.

The Lockheed Martin-led team is currently conducting architecture and risk reduction activities as part of a 14-month Component Advanced Development contract awarded in Sept. 2002.

"The addition of Boeing further strengthens our team's ability to provide the Navy with a best value solution to the MUOS requirements," said Leonard F. Kwiatkowski, vice president, Lockheed Martin Space & Strategic Missiles in Sunnyvale.

"We are excited to combine our systems engineering, MILSATCOM, and commercial satellite experience with that of General Dynamics and Boeing; and the entire team is focused on improving our solution for the next-generation of mobile satellite communications to the warfighter."

MUOS is an element of the DoD's Advanced Narrowband Communications system and will replace the current Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) system over the next two decades. The Navy's UFO system currently provides narrowband tactical satellite communications to Joint Forces and Coalition partners and was initially launched in 1993.

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Boeing Awarded Contract to Build Third Wideband Gapfiller Satellite

St Louis - Jan 06, 2003
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract option to build a third satellite in the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite, or WGS, program.

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