{"id":52104,"date":"2024-01-02T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-air-force-contracts-viasat-for-five-year-satellite-tech-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:39:00","slug":"us-air-force-contracts-viasat-for-five-year-satellite-tech-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-air-force-contracts-viasat-for-five-year-satellite-tech-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Contracts Viasat for Five-Year Satellite Tech Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> awarded an Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to satellite operator <strong>Viasat<\/strong> to provide integrated, multi-domain capabilities for the USAF Life Cycle Management Center (USAF LCMC). Viasat announced the award on Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The contract, named LCMC XA IDIQ by the Pentagon, has a five-year term with a ceiling value of $900 million and requires Viasat to prototype and test systems, hardware, software, and cybersecurity capabilities utilizing satellite services from its Ka-band, S-band, and L-band networks.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat\u2019s work under the IDIQ contract will fall under three categories: \u201cDevelopment Planning,\u201d which will define the rapid transition of technology from lab to operational use; \u201cSystems Development,\u201d which will see emerging systems, hardware and software incorporated into existing platforms and tested in operational environments; and \u201cSynthetic Environment Development\u201d will allow the directorate to build advanced models and simulations based on real-life scenarios (digital twins) to perform operational assessments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe architecture and integration directorate \u2013 AFLCMC\/XA \u2013 works with industry contractors like Viasat to transition those technologies ever-faster to operational forces,\u201d Viasat said in a statement. \u201cThe contract was set up to allow the USAF to quickly access a wide range of industry solutions and make integrated technology available to its personnel more quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force awarded an Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to satellite operator Viasat to provide integrated, multi-domain capabilities for the USAF Life Cycle Management Center (USAF LCMC). Viasat announced the award on Dec. 28. The contract, named LCMC XA IDIQ by the Pentagon, has a five-year term with a ceiling value of $900 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52106,"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-52104","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\/52104"}],"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=52104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}