{"id":69924,"date":"2016-09-21T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-awarded-us-government-protected-satcom-demonstration-contract\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:09:17","slug":"viasat-awarded-us-government-protected-satcom-demonstration-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-awarded-us-government-protected-satcom-demonstration-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Awarded US Government Protected Satcom Demonstration Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-20-2016] <strong>ViaSat <\/strong>has received a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract worth $33,291,975 from the U.S. government to provide wideband jamming-proof communications to tactical users across both government and commercial satellites. The contract is for the Protected Tactical Service Field Demonstration (PTSFD) program and includes the development of a Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) modem as well as an embedded cryptographic unit.<\/p>\n<p>The PTSFD program aims to demonstrate the ability to provide wideband anti-jam communications to tactical users of the&nbsp;Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation and commercial systems.&nbsp;According to ViaSat, the program enables the&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;government to take advantage of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems. PTSFD seeks to provide a higher degree of operational flexibility and greater amounts of bandwidth than is possible with the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2019s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) constellation alone. ViaSat expects to complete this work by&nbsp;Sept. 30, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis PTW modem, coupled with our&nbsp;ViaSat 3 ultra-high capacity class of satellites, uniquely positions&nbsp;ViaSat&nbsp;to provide global, interoperable communications to deployed warfighters with the most assured, resilient and fastest satellite service available,\u201d said Ken Peterman, SVP and general manager of ViaSat\u2019s Government Systems Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-20-2016] ViaSat has received a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract worth $33,291,975 from the U.S. government to provide wideband jamming-proof communications to tactical users across both government and commercial satellites. The contract is for the Protected Tactical Service Field Demonstration (PTSFD) program and includes the development of a Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) modem as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-69924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69924"}],"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=69924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}