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14 December 2011
Space Daily

Aerostat system detects cruise missiles and supports engagement

TCOM supports JLENS with its 74M aerostat.

7 October 2011
Wired.com

Look: Giant Spy Blimp Dwarfs an 18-Wheeler

9 June 2011
Defence. Professionals online

NAVAIR's latest surveillance technology is more than just hot air

TCOM supports PGSS with its 22M aerostat.

4 June 2011
Joint Base Balad, Iraq

Eye in the sky watches over JBB

Since 2004, the U.S Army's RAID program has been utilizing TCOM's 17M aerostats across Iraq.

20 May 2011
Military & Aerospace Electronics online

TCOM to provide five persistent-surveillance aerostats for Army Persistent Ground Surveillance System program

14 April 2011
4Traders

Raytheon JLENS Successfully Test Targets

...TCOM, L.P., based in Maryland, makes the aerostat and associated ground equipment.

7 April 2011
FlightGlobal

US Air Force joins airship demonstration race with Blue Devil 2

...The TCOM-built airship is nearly 113m (370ft) long, with a payload compartment measuring 7m long by 3m wide by 2.1m high, he says.

18 January 2011
Wired

All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan's Biggest Brain

...Phase two - the airship - will be considerably bigger, and more complex. The lighter-than-aircraft, built by TCOM L.P. will be longer than a football field at 350 feet and several times the size of the Goodyear Blimp at 1.4 million cubic feet.

29 August 2010
Daily Advance

TCOM Builds dozen-plus military aerostats

20 August 2010
Daily Advance

Butterfield: Clear Skies for Aviation

14 April 2010
Deseret News

TCOM 74M Aerostat makes maiden flight in Utah test range in support of Cruise Missile Defense

25 August 2009
Daily Advance

TCOM aerostat part of new missile defense system

1 July 2009
Space.com

U.S. Army Revives Old Airship Concept for Modern Mission

...TCOM of Columbia, Md., is building the aerostats, the first of which will make its first flight in August up to about 2,952 feet (900 meters) above the ground at the company's Elizabeth City, N.C., manufacturing facility...

28 April 2009
Mediacaster Magazine

New Wireless Capabilities Up in the Air

TCOM proudly supports the Canadian Department of National Defence with deployment of their 17M Aerostat System.

1 April 2009
Redstone Rocket

Big tactical aerostat flies for first time

...The event centered on the helium inflation of the world's first 74 meter aerostat. Aerostat serial 0001 lifted off the ground for the first time March 9 at the TCOM manufacturing and flight test facilities in Elizabeth City, N.C.

14 August 2008
Daily Advance

TCOM Soars Above

14 August 2008
Pilot Online

Company Celebrates Production of 100th Aerostat

...Standing in the shadow of its 100th 17-meter aerostat, Barlow applauded the employees inside the Weeksville hangar who made it possible.

04 July 2008
Daily Advance

Blackwater Airships test new prototype

Making up the largest portion of the airship is its envelope, which was manufactured at TCOM and designed with a flexible envelope without an internal frame...

25 April 2008
Daily Advance

TCOM tests aerostat-borne communications system

TCOM technicians launch an aerostat equipped with the Cellular Aerostat Platform System communications package during a demonstration Thursday for the U.S. Army at TCOM's facility in Weeksville.

03 March 2008
Rocky Mount TELEGRAM

New manufacturing facility in Elizabeth City

February 2008 -EVENT
TCOM at Singapore Airshow 2008

TCOM will once again be exhibiting at the Singapore Airshow 2008. This is our tenth consecutive show of exhibiting at this important conference. The show will be held February 19 through 24 at the Changi Exhibition Centre. Come by U.S. Pavilion Booth Q-83 for the latest information on TCOM and our aerostats. TCOM will be introducing our new Cellular Aerostat Platform System (CAPS) that reconstitutes wide-area emergency communications in the face of a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina or the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. We look forward to seeing you there!

 

 
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