{"id":61564,"date":"2019-09-17T18:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-dhs-selects-hughes-for-tactical-satcom-contract\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:07:26","slug":"us-dhs-selects-hughes-for-tactical-satcom-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-dhs-selects-hughes-for-tactical-satcom-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"US DHS Selects Hughes for Tactical Satcom Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hughes Network Systems <\/strong>was selected as an awardee under the $3 billion U.S. <strong>Department of Homeland Security<\/strong> (DHS) Tactical Communications Equipment and Services II (TacCom II) contract vehicle. The follow-on to the TacCom contract, TacCom II now includes satellite technology and services from Hughes to enhance agency capabilities for emergency communications, rural and remote connectivity, and Communications-On-The-Move (COTM) systems.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to enable mission critical information and situational awareness sharing, TacCom II is expected to foster inter-agency collaboration among DHS and nine participating agencies, including <strong>Departments of Agriculture<\/strong>, <strong>Interior<\/strong>, <strong>Justice<\/strong>, <strong>Health and Human Services<\/strong>, <strong>State<\/strong>, <strong>Treasury<\/strong>, <strong>Veterans Affairs<\/strong>, <strong>White House Communications Agency<\/strong>, and the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>. Across these agencies, satellite solutions from Hughes can extend network reach and interoperability, and support the various missions, such as disaster response, border security, and interstate or international law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment missions and operations don\u2019t always happen near communications infrastructure,\u201d said Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of government solutions at Hughes. \u201cSatellite services are critical, not only to connect the unconnected but also as a lifeline during and after disasters that disrupt terrestrial networks. We look forward to supporting DHS and other agencies under this new contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes Network Systems was selected as an awardee under the $3 billion U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tactical Communications Equipment and Services II (TacCom II) contract vehicle. The follow-on to the TacCom contract, TacCom II now includes satellite technology and services from Hughes to enhance agency capabilities for emergency communications, rural and remote connectivity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48168,"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-61564","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\/61564"}],"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=61564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}