{"id":59585,"date":"2020-06-05T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/data-link-solutions-receives-us-air-force-mids-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:16:00","slug":"data-link-solutions-receives-us-air-force-mids-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/data-link-solutions-receives-us-air-force-mids-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Link Solutions Receives US Air Force MIDS Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> has awarded <b>Data Link Solutions<\/b> a $33.6 million contract for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) low volume terminal, the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) announced Thursday. Data Link Solutions&nbsp; is a joint venture between <strong>BAE Systems<\/strong> and <strong>Collins Aerospace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The $33,598,645 firm-fixed-price, Indefinite-Delivery\/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) requirements contract will provide for repair services for current configuration line and shop replaceable units to ensure terminal-to-terminal interoperability between MIDS and Link-16 terminal platform variants.&nbsp; Work will be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Wayne, New Jersey, and is expected to be completed June 4, 2023.&nbsp; The Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins Air Force Base, in Georgia, is the contracting activity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes after the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong> selected DLS and <b>Viasat<\/b> to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain MIDS Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) terminals last month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force has awarded Data Link Solutions a $33.6 million contract for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) low volume terminal, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced Thursday. Data Link Solutions&nbsp; is a joint venture between BAE Systems and Collins Aerospace. The $33,598,645 firm-fixed-price, Indefinite-Delivery\/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) requirements contract will provide for repair services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59586,"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-59585","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\/59585"}],"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=59585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}