{"id":50113,"date":"2024-11-23T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-starshield-has-received-most-task-orders-for-space-force-pleo-services-so-far\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:22:04","slug":"spacexs-starshield-has-received-most-task-orders-for-space-force-pleo-services-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-starshield-has-received-most-task-orders-for-space-force-pleo-services-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starshield Has Received Most Task Orders for Space Force pLEO Services So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">Military forces\u2019 demand for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders \u2014 the majority to <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2018s Starshield, the military version of Starlink \u2014 under the originally envisioned, up to $900 million 10-year contract, a service official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">The result? In the last few months, Space Force increased the $900 million ceiling for the overall contract, a base five years with an option for another five, to $13 billion, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMath-wise we were gonna hit the ceiling in 2025,\u201d the official said. \u201cThe popularity of PLEO is very apparent right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and SSC have awarded eligibility contracts to&nbsp;20 companies&nbsp;for the PLEO services since July last year: SpaceX, Capella Federal; BlackSky Geospatial Solutions; SES\u2019s DRS Global Enterprise Solutions; Hughes Network Systems; Inmarsat Government; Amazon\u2019s Kuiper Government Services; Intelsat; OneWeb Technologies;&nbsp;ARINC;&nbsp;Artel; PAR Government;&nbsp;RiteNet Corp;&nbsp;Satcom Direct;&nbsp;Trace Systems;&nbsp;UltiSat;&nbsp;Honeywell\u2019s aerospace division, AT&amp;T;&nbsp;Iridium Communications;&nbsp;and Lynk Global, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial PLEO contract is to provide low-latency for military mission areas, such as communications and imagery, for space, air, land, sea and cyber forces.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military forces\u2019 demand for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what the U.S. Space Force expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders \u2014 the majority to SpaceX\u2018s Starshield, the military version of Starlink \u2014 under the originally envisioned, up to $900 million 10-year contract, a service official said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}