LinQuest Corporation has received a $562 million award from the U. S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide architecting and full life-cycle systems engineering, integration, and solutions support to the military satellite communications enterprise.

The portfolio of SMC programs supported by MSEIT includes all satellites, terminals, and networks for worldwide tactical, strategic, and wideband military communications.

Tim Dills, LinQuest President and CEO, said the company is proud to sustain its nearly 40 year heritage of helping SMC design, develop, deploy, and operate their MILSATCOM portfolio of programs. The firm is grateful to know that SMC continues to recognize and value our digital engineering tools and subject matter expertise as integral ingredients to their future success.

Chris Beres, GM, Space Systems Engineering & Integration Group, added that MILSATCOM is where LinQuest began and recognizes that SMC 2.0 is where the firm's customer is headed and are prepared as future space systems are reinvented, designed and acquired to ensure LinQuest remains ahead of all threats to the national security space enterprise.