{"id":62536,"date":"2019-04-22T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iridium-receives-dod-gateway-support-and-maintenance-contract\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:10:51","slug":"iridium-receives-dod-gateway-support-and-maintenance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iridium-receives-dod-gateway-support-and-maintenance-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium Receives DoD Gateway Support and Maintenance Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iridium Communications<\/strong> was awarded a new contract by the <strong>Defense Information Systems Agency<\/strong> (DISA) to continue supporting the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) gateway. The contract, valued at $54 million over 4.5 years, for Gateway Maintenance and Support Service (GMSS), will help ensure that this dedicated ground site continues to operate at peak efficiency and in optimal condition for critical U.S. DoD missions.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated for use by the U.S. DoD, their Iridium gateway serves as the uplink and downlink point for the DoD\u2019s EMSS communications capabilities through the Iridium<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>network.&nbsp; This includes the capabilities made possible by Iridium\u2019s upgraded satellite constellation, which was formally completed and declared fully operational in February of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new contract provides the mechanism for Iridium to help ensure the DoD gateway is able to fully support the new capabilities and services needed to meet the emerging requirements of the warfighter,\u201d said&nbsp;Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of government programs, Iridium. \u201cIt is yet another example of the strategic, long-term relationship between Iridium and the U.S. Department of Defense.&nbsp;We remain committed to the U.S. DoD and the warfighter as we explore new ways for addressing critical requirements leveraging our unique satellite network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium Communications was awarded a new contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to continue supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) gateway. The contract, valued at $54 million over 4.5 years, for Gateway Maintenance and Support Service (GMSS), will help ensure that this dedicated ground site continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54891,"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-62536","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\/62536"}],"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=62536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}