{"id":51401,"date":"2024-04-25T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lynk-global-signs-satellite-to-cell-contract-with-us-dod\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:55:22","slug":"lynk-global-signs-satellite-to-cell-contract-with-us-dod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lynk-global-signs-satellite-to-cell-contract-with-us-dod\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynk Global Signs Satellite-to-Cell Contract with US DoD"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Lynk Global<\/b> signed a contract with the <b>Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)<\/b> to provide commercial satellite-to-cell services to the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD), the <strong>Department of Homeland Security<\/strong> (DHS), and other U.S. government agencies. Lynk Global announced the contract on April 25.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynk refers to its service, which connects standard phones directly to satellite as \u201csat2phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, the DoD, DHS, and other U.S. government agencies can commercially purchase Lynk\u2019s sat2phone services for the next five years, with possible extensions to the contract of five more years. The award is part of DISA\u2019s Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services program, which announced a number of awards last year to establish commercial communications for military use. The full program value, including all vendors, is worth up to $900 million.<\/p>\n<p>Services available under the contract include SMS text messaging, emergency cell broadcast alerts, and LynkCast weather &amp; information broadcast services.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Miller, Lynk co-founder and CEO, said the DoD has been field testing Lynk\u2019s technology for several years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful for the trust that the DoD has given to Lynk with their decision to give us the first-ever&nbsp;sat2phone contract.\u201d Miller said. \u201cThis contract will enable the nearly 3 million men and women in the DoD to use the existing phone in their pockets to stay connected everywhere.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLynk will enable U.S. government agencies to access life-saving emergency communications to help the American people when terrestrial mobile networks are non-existent or have failed. DISA and the U.S. Space Force will save lives through the Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) contract vehicle,\u201d said Margo Deckard, Lynk\u2019s co-founder and COO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynk Global signed a contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide commercial satellite-to-cell services to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other U.S. government agencies. Lynk Global announced the contract on April 25.&nbsp; Lynk refers to its service, which connects standard phones directly to satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48876,"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-51401","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\/51401"}],"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=51401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}