Multibillion American company Lockheed Martin has now finalized a deal to produce two Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites for the United States Air Force, an agreement that was anticipated to generate a total of $2 billion for the company.
Under the terms of the contract, Lockheed Martin will create the fifth and sixth AEHF satellites for the U.S Air Force.
“As protected and resilient satellite communications become increasingly vital to global security, the AEHF program has developed into an indispensable element of the nation’s military space architecture,” Lockheed Martin Vice President of Protected Communications Mark Calassa said in a statement. “This production contract for the fifth and sixth AEHF satellites affirms the government’s confidence in our ability to deliver these spacecraft affordably and efficiently to meet the burgeoning demand from strategic and tactical users worldwide.”
The first two AEHF satellites were sent into their designated orbits in 2010 and 2012, respectively. The network is said to be shared by four countries: Canada, the Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. These cutting-edge satellites aim to enhance secure military communications, assuring safe lines of communication between the president and top military leaders in extreme situations, like a nuclear attack. The AEHF satellites represent a major upgrade on the Milstar system, which has been in place since 1994.
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