{"id":50331,"date":"2024-10-15T19:15:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/general-dynamics-and-iridium-receive-490m-modification-for-sda-contract\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T19:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:15:43","slug":"general-dynamics-and-iridium-receive-490m-modification-for-sda-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/general-dynamics-and-iridium-receive-490m-modification-for-sda-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"General Dynamics and Iridium Receive $490M Modification for SDA Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Space Development Agency<\/b> (SDA) awarded <b>General Dynamics Mission Systems<\/b> (GDMS) and <b>Iridium Communications<\/b> a $491.6 million contract modification for their work to support ground systems for the SDA\u2019s satellite constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The award is a modification of the GDMS and Iridium contract for the Ground Management and Integration (GMI) program for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The SDA awarded the initial cost-plus contract of $324.5 million in May of 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iridium reported in a Tuesday release that the company\u2019s share of the contract is worth $239 million over five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The GDMS-Iridium team will manage integration of the ground enterprise with SDA\u2019s Tranche 2 constellation. This includes all services ranging from engineering design and analysis to testing, maintenance, infrastructure management and site support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to delivering SDA and our warfighters an innovative and effective ground system that leverages the many years of Iridium\u2019s unparalleled commercial LEO development and operations expertise, helping to ensure they are prepared for the challenges of today and the future,\u201d commented Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of Government Programs for Iridium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) and Iridium Communications a $491.6 million contract modification for their work to support ground systems for the SDA\u2019s satellite constellation.&nbsp; The award is a modification of the GDMS and Iridium contract for the Ground Management and Integration (GMI) program for the Proliferated Warfighter Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48577,"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-50331","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\/50331"}],"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=50331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}