Navy picks Assurance Technology for new ways of sending radio signals from the ground to space

摘要

U.S. Navy researchers needed new ways of communicating between the ground and deployed spacecraft and aircraft with radio signals. They found their solution from Assurance Technology Corp. in Carlisle, Mass. Officials of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington announced $193.7 million five-year contract to Assurance Technology for the Transmitting Energy Radio Frequency (RF) Systems project. The project focuses on transmitting energy across the RF spectrum from the ground to satellites and aircraft. The targeted spacecraft will process the RF energy, and antennas at locations throughout the world will collect the information for analysis.