{"id":63889,"date":"2018-10-09T00:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ssl-edges-closer-to-key-us-dod-small-satellite-contract\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T00:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:40:47","slug":"ssl-edges-closer-to-key-us-dod-small-satellite-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ssl-edges-closer-to-key-us-dod-small-satellite-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Edges Closer to Key US DOD Small Satellite Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SSL<\/strong>, a <strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> company, has secured another U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contract. SSL has been selected as one of three companies qualified to compete for DOD business under a contract called Small Spacecraft Prototyping Engineering Development and Integration \u2013 Space Solutions (SSPEDI). <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley manages the contract under an interagency agreement with the DOD\u2019s Space Rapid Capabilities Office.<\/p>\n<p>SSPEDI aims to establish a rapid and flexible method for the DOD\u2019s Space Rapid Capabilities Office to acquire commercially-developed solutions for small to medium spacecraft and related systems from a pool of pre-qualified candidates. As one of the awardees, SSL is eligible to compete for multiple future awards over the five-year ordering period of the contract, up to a cumulative value of $750 million. SSL will closely partner with Maxar\u2019s geospatial insights company, <strong>Radiant Solutions<\/strong>. Radiant will study next-generation systems for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and contribute its mission engineering expertise to the company\u2019s solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The company also partners with <strong>MDA<\/strong>, <strong>DigitalGlobe<\/strong> and Radiant Solutions to provide end-to-end solutions, mission systems engineering, advanced signal and imagery processing, multi-intelligence analytics, and ground systems to help speed decision-making cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, has secured another U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contract. SSL has been selected as one of three companies qualified to compete for DOD business under a contract called Small Spacecraft Prototyping Engineering Development and Integration \u2013 Space Solutions (SSPEDI). NASA\u2018s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley manages the contract under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63892,"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-63889","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\/63889"}],"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=63889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}