NXT Communications (NXTCOMM)

NXT Communications Corporation (NXTCOMM) is a Georgia-based satellite connectivity company founded in 2017 by CEO David Horton and President Tim Morton, who assembled a team of veteran hardware and software engineers from across the aviation and satellite industry. Headquartered in metro Atlanta with an advanced antenna manufacturing facility, the company works closely with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to commercialize field- and flight-proven fragmented aperture antenna technology.

NXTCOMM's core innovation is a low-cost, electronically steered flat-panel satellite antenna built on standard PCB manufacturing techniques with commercial off-the-shelf components and a modular sub-array topology that scales to any form factor. Unlike traditional mechanically steered antennas, NXTCOMM's designs have no moving parts, are electronically steerable, and operate across both Ku and Ka frequency bands, enabling mass producible, resilient connectivity hardware at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.

The company's flagship AeroMax antenna targets commercial and business aviation operators seeking affordable, scalable in-flight connectivity, while its NXTCOMM Defense division adapts the same fragmented aperture technology into conformal, low-profile Electronically Steered Antennas (ESAs) for military Communications On-the-Move (COTM), supporting warfighters who need to track GEO, MEO and LEO satellites from vehicle-mounted or manpack platforms.

Beyond hardware, NXTCOMM offers high-performance, end-to-end managed connectivity services, including provisioning, monitoring and performance analytics, allowing customers to run and support wireless broadband infrastructure anywhere in the world while unlocking new revenue streams such as internet access, live TV and data services on land, at sea and in the air.