{"id":59662,"date":"2020-05-22T21:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-data-link-solutions-win-big-on-u-s-navy-mids-jtrs-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T21:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:48:42","slug":"viasat-data-link-solutions-win-big-on-u-s-navy-mids-jtrs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-data-link-solutions-win-big-on-u-s-navy-mids-jtrs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat, Data Link Solutions Win Big on U.S. Navy MIDS JTRS Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong> selected <strong>Viasat<\/strong> and <strong>Data Link Solutions (DLS)<\/strong> to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) terminals.<\/p>\n<p>MIDS JTRS terminals are line-of-sight, four-channel radio systems designed for secure broadband data and voice transmissions to end-users on the ground, at sea, or in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat will work on the production order for a five-year period ending May 2025. The California-based operator will receive $48.3 million to produce the first MIDS JTRS delivery order, while DLS, a joint venture of <strong>BAE Systems<\/strong> and <strong>Raytheon\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>Collins Aerospace<\/strong> subsidiary, will receive $64.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first reported on by our sister publication, Defense Daily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy selected Viasat and Data Link Solutions (DLS) to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) terminals. MIDS JTRS terminals are line-of-sight, four-channel radio systems designed for secure broadband data and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59663,"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-59662","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\/59662"}],"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=59662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}