{"id":59971,"date":"2020-04-11T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-air-force-awards-persistent-a-25m-communications-system-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-04-11T00:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:28:49","slug":"us-air-force-awards-persistent-a-25m-communications-system-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-air-force-awards-persistent-a-25m-communications-system-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Awards Persistent a $25M Communications System Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> has awarded <b>Persistent Systems, LLC <\/b>a $25 million contract for its Wave Relay Tactical Assault Kit (WaRTAK) program. The WaRTAK program, which began in 2016, provides Air Force convoys driving in austere environments with reliable multi-domain communications and situational awareness, tying in radio, GPS, cellular, and satellite internet connections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This four-year contract will upgrade the Air Force\u2019s WaRTAK with Persistent\u2019s next generation of hardware. Persistent will also provide the program with smart networking devices and a Push-to-Talk (PTT) system designed to allow users to talk on two radio talk groups simultaneously and as an intercom system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scheduled upgrade \u2026 will bring a substantial increase in capability and reliability while reducing the size, weight and power on vehicles and dismount users,\u201d said Adrien Robenhymer, vice president of Business Development for Persistent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force has awarded Persistent Systems, LLC a $25 million contract for its Wave Relay Tactical Assault Kit (WaRTAK) program. The WaRTAK program, which began in 2016, provides Air Force convoys driving in austere environments with reliable multi-domain communications and situational awareness, tying in radio, GPS, cellular, and satellite internet connections.&nbsp; This four-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49698,"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-59971","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\/59971"}],"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=59971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}