{"id":51729,"date":"2024-02-29T19:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-wins-contract-from-northrop-grumman-for-deusci-program\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:17:28","slug":"viasat-wins-contract-from-northrop-grumman-for-deusci-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-wins-contract-from-northrop-grumman-for-deusci-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman for DEUSCI Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Viasat<\/b> was awarded a contract from <b>Northrop Grumman<\/b> to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) also referred to as \u2018Global Lightning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s four-year contract aims to bring defense contractors and commercial satcom providers together to implement space internet services into existing military systems. As part of its contract with Northrop Grumman, Viasat will provide its ViaSat-3 satellite communications network to equip military users with satellite internet connectivity from existing USAF aircraft or ground vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat will integrate its ViaSat-3 modem into Northrop Grumman\u2019s open systems processors and antenna solutions to conduct experiments. The modem is aligned with open communications and IP-protocol standards in use by the military, for example, OpenAMIP, CMOSS, and SOSA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Lightning is about delivering flexibility and agility for military users. Our reliable satellite services \u2014 coupled with the open source optimized ViaSat-3 modem \u2014 are designed to be able to offer game-changing communications capability so they can connect with ease and deliver mission success,\u201d said Victor Farah, head of Viasat Government Systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat was awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) also referred to as \u2018Global Lightning.\u2019 Northrop Grumman\u2019s four-year contract aims to bring defense contractors and commercial satcom providers together to implement space internet services into existing military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51731,"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-51729","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\/51729"}],"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=51729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}