{"id":52287,"date":"2023-11-29T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-wins-phase-2-space-bacn-contract-from-darpa\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T09:09:57","slug":"telesat-wins-phase-2-space-bacn-contract-from-darpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-wins-phase-2-space-bacn-contract-from-darpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat Wins Phase 2 Space-BACN Contract from DARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Telesat<\/b>\u2019s government subsidiary won a Phase 2 contract for the <b>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/b> (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. This new award is a follow-on to the Phase 1 contract that Telesat Government Solutions won in August 2022. In Phase 1, 11 companies were selected for work across three technical areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Space-BACN is a DoD program to foster interoperable technologies that can enable seamless communication between government and commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Phase 2, Telesat said it will evolve the schema for cross-constellation communications for more challenging and dynamic scenarios. Phase 2 \u201cwill emphasize scalability and increasing the nodes for connectivity while enhancing the schema\u2019s capabilities and efficiency,\u201d Telesat said. It has a 20-month period of performance. Telesat did not share the financial value of the contract.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the rapid innovation and growth of commercial satellite constellations, it is critical for the DoD to achieve the broad space connectivity needed across multiple domains as space-based threats increase. This Phase 2 program will make important contributions toward facilitating seamless space relay data flows between government owned systems and secure, advanced commercial networks such as Telesat Lightspeed,\u201d commented Philip Harlow, President of Telesat Government Solutions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat\u2019s government subsidiary won a Phase 2 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. This new award is a follow-on to the Phase 1 contract that Telesat Government Solutions won in August 2022. In Phase 1, 11 companies were selected for work across three technical areas.&nbsp; Space-BACN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52288,"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-52287","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\/52287"}],"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=52287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}