{"id":67711,"date":"2017-07-19T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/australia-selects-northrop-grumman-to-expand-wgs-participation\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T11:26:00","slug":"australia-selects-northrop-grumman-to-expand-wgs-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/australia-selects-northrop-grumman-to-expand-wgs-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Selects Northrop Grumman to Expand WGS Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Australian Defense Force<\/strong> (ADF) is expanding its global satellite investment with a $175 million contract to&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> to provide network management capability for Australia\u2019s participation in the Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) system. Northrop Grumman will provide its Satellite Communications Operations and Planning Element (SCOPE) integration tools, alongside&nbsp;<strong>ViaSat<\/strong>\u2019s dual-band satellite terminal and Australian telecommunications company&nbsp;<strong>Optus<\/strong>\u2019 operating systems to fully realize Australia\u2019s participation in the global satellite operation. The WGS is a global satellite partnership to provide secure communication systems between the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and New Zealand using space segment satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthrop Grumman\u2019s SCOPE core capabilities are the foundation of this proven, operational system that manages and monitors satellite communications today,\u201d Chief Executive of Northrop Grumman Australia Ian Irving said in a statement. \u201cThat experience forms the ADF sovereign capability, providing benefits to Australia while reducing program risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contract, initially awarded in June, is part of the ADF\u2019s multi-phase Joint Protect 2008 meant to increase the nation\u2019s global satcom bandwidth capabilities. As part of Phase 5B2 of the project, Northrop Grumman will install a satellite ground station in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales to operate the ADF\u2019s wideband satcom network management system and support satellite tools for deployed forces. This ground station will then be integrated as part of the WGS system\u2019s group of secure military global communications satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Optus is currently the largest satellite provider for Australia and New Zealand and ViaSat recently finished installation of 10 new ground stations for Australia\u2019s National Broadband Network (NBN) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Defense Force (ADF) is expanding its global satellite investment with a $175 million contract to&nbsp;Northrop Grumman to provide network management capability for Australia\u2019s participation in the Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGS) system. Northrop Grumman will provide its Satellite Communications Operations and Planning Element (SCOPE) integration tools, alongside&nbsp;ViaSat\u2019s dual-band satellite terminal and Australian telecommunications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66890,"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-67711","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\/67711"}],"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=67711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}