INDUS Technology, Inc. was recently awarded a subcontract by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, Sunnyvale, CA to provide engineering assistance to their recently awarded contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, CA. This contract is to perform a concept study for the Navy's next generation communication satellite system.
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space was one of four companies to receive the Navy's competitive awards that will run through April 2000.

Under this contract, the Missiles & Space Team will perform a concept study for the Advanced Narrowband System (ANS) / Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). MUOS is a government owned or controlled communication system composed of spacecraft, spacecraft control and network control elements. ANS, an overarching communications "system of systems," will consist of MUOS, commercial mobile subscriber services and possibly an airborne communications node.
"We are extremely proud to have been selected to provide technical assistance to this eminent team of communications experts," said Dr. Kathleen Sridhar, INDUS Technology President and CEO. "INDUS will participate with other teammates Motorola, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, Rockwell Collins, and Nichols Research. The team will apply its strong military and commercial communications satellite, services and terminal expertise to provide a low cost, mission effective system to the users."

The Navy's current UHF communications satellite constellation provides narrowband tactical satellite communications for Defense Department mobile users. As the next-generation narrowband satellite constellation, ANS/MUOS will initially supplement, and ultimately replace, the current UFO constellation over the next two decades. The principal objectives of MUOS are to provide warfighters with assured access to communications, netted and point-to point communications, worldwide coverage, joint interoperability, and communications on the move.

INDUS Technology, Inc. is a San Diego based, small, woman-owned business recently certified by the US Small Business Administration as an SDB (Small Disadvantaged Business) and a participant in the 8(a) Program. INDUS is a provider of Communications, ASW, Weapons Systems development and Modeling and Simulation services to the military.