{"id":67661,"date":"2017-07-28T00:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-will-help-deliver-satcom-equipment-for-the-australian-defense-force\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:12:17","slug":"viasat-will-help-deliver-satcom-equipment-for-the-australian-defense-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-will-help-deliver-satcom-equipment-for-the-australian-defense-force\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Will Help Deliver Satcom Equipment for the Australian Defense Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Grumman <\/strong>has selected <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> as a key partner in the delivery of a next-generation satellite communications network to the <strong>Australian Defense Force<\/strong> (ADF). Under a program known as Joint Project 2008 Phase 5B2, a large multiphase project to deploy an integrated wideband satcom system for the ADF, ViaSat will provide its ground stations and dual-band Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite Earth terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, prime contractor Northrop Grumman will work with ViaSat to deliver a satellite ground station at Kapooka Military Area, Wagga Wagga in&nbsp;New South Wales&nbsp;and a wideband satcom network management system to support home station and deployed forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ADF, the WGS constellation is a vital military asset providing&nbsp;Australia,&nbsp;the United States,&nbsp;Canada,&nbsp;Denmark,&nbsp;Luxembourg,&nbsp;the Netherlands&nbsp;and&nbsp;New Zealand&nbsp;with reliable and secure communications services worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>ViaSat also recently delivered a number of complete ground stations for&nbsp;Australia\u2019s&nbsp;National Broadband Network program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman has selected ViaSat as a key partner in the delivery of a next-generation satellite communications network to the Australian Defense Force (ADF). Under a program known as Joint Project 2008 Phase 5B2, a large multiphase project to deploy an integrated wideband satcom system for the ADF, ViaSat will provide its ground stations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67662,"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-67661","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\/67661"}],"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=67661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}