{"id":59342,"date":"2020-07-22T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-to-develop-prototype-antenna-for-u-s-navy-ships\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:16:33","slug":"ball-aerospace-to-develop-prototype-antenna-for-u-s-navy-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-to-develop-prototype-antenna-for-u-s-navy-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace to Develop Prototype Antenna for U.S. Navy Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <strong>Defense Innovation Unit<\/strong> (DIU) selected <strong>Ball Aerospace<\/strong> to develop a prototype of a new multi-band, low-observable satellite communications antenna to be installed on the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong>\u2018s newest stealth ships, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers. This is part of the DIU\u2019s Multi-Domain Tactical Communications (MDTC) program.<\/p>\n<p>Ball is leveraging its portfolios of electronically steerable phased array antenna technologies and stealth technologies to design a solution that can operate over multiple frequency bands, meet existing signature requirements, and integrate into the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to partner with DIU and the U.S. Navy to explore ways to quickly and cost-effectively increase the capabilities of the DDG 1000,\u201d said Dr. Jake Sauer, vice president and general manager, Tactical Solutions, Ball Aerospace. \u201cOur multi-band, multi-beam phased array heritage and conformal antenna expertise directly supports the warfighter by addressing emerging threats and taking on new missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected Ball Aerospace to develop a prototype of a new multi-band, low-observable satellite communications antenna to be installed on the U.S. Navy\u2018s newest stealth ships, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers. This is part of the DIU\u2019s Multi-Domain Tactical Communications (MDTC) program. Ball is leveraging its portfolios of electronically steerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59345,"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-59342","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\/59342"}],"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=59342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}