EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 30, 2012 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a $338.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch a tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite.

The final three satellites in the Air Force's 10-satellite WGS constellation include a digital channelizer that will boost capacity by enabling the satellite to use bandwidth more efficiently. Credit: ...

Boeing Co. has delivered the first communications payload and digital channelizer to Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications system. MUOS comprises a ...