{"id":58440,"date":"2020-12-14T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbcomm-receives-46m-us-army-contract-for-iot-tech\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:58:51","slug":"orbcomm-receives-46m-us-army-contract-for-iot-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbcomm-receives-46m-us-army-contract-for-iot-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbcomm Receives $46M US Army Contract\u00a0for IoT Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong> has given <strong>Orbcomm<\/strong> a single-award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $45.6 million for its Next Generation Tag (NGT) program. The multi-year NGT contract extends through Dec. 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Orbcomm has agreed to provide cellular, satellite, and dual-mode devices and connectivity to support logistics and asset management for government customers. According to Orbcomm, the government intends to use NGT technology in applications that require higher performance than other other automated data storage and retrieval technologies. The NGT technology will be affixed to assets or other objects of interest to capture and transmit varying amounts of data, which are stored and processed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cWe are excited to be selected by the U.S. Army to provide these critical products and services to support their logistics and asset management efforts for government users,\u201d commented Greg Flessate, Orbcomm\u2019s Senior Vice President (SVP) of Government, AIS and Business Operations. \u201cWe look forward to fulfilling the requirements of the Next Generation Tag program contract over the next four years and providing advanced IoT technology to the U.S. Government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army has given Orbcomm a single-award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $45.6 million for its Next Generation Tag (NGT) program. The multi-year NGT contract extends through Dec. 2024.&nbsp; Orbcomm has agreed to provide cellular, satellite, and dual-mode devices and connectivity to support logistics and asset management for government customers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46726,"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-58440","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\/58440"}],"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=58440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}