{"id":70865,"date":"2016-06-02T18:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/disa-awards-73-million-in-flight-connectivity-contract-to-viasat-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:08:36","slug":"disa-awards-73-million-in-flight-connectivity-contract-to-viasat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/disa-awards-73-million-in-flight-connectivity-contract-to-viasat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DISA Awards $73 Million In-Flight Connectivity Contract to ViaSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-02-2016] The United States<b> Defense Information Systems Agency <\/b>(DISA) has awarded <b>ViaSat <\/b>a non-competitive, firm-fixed-price contract to provide senior leaders and their support staff with Ku-band and Ka-band communications using the company\u2019s subscription service while travelling via aircraft.&nbsp;Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funding is approximately $33 million, and the total cumulative face value of the contract is roughly $73.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to DISA, performance will be primarily at the ViaSat Carlsbad location, Denver Networks Operation Center (NOC), and government care centers.&nbsp;The period of performance is June 1, 2016, through May 31, 2017, with two six-month option periods.&nbsp;The <b>Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization<\/b>, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity.<\/p>\n<p>DISA said the U.S. government posted the synopsis\/notice of intent on the federal business opportunities website, and while proposals were solicited, only one proposal was received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-02-2016] The United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded ViaSat a non-competitive, firm-fixed-price contract to provide senior leaders and their support staff with Ku-band and Ka-band communications using the company\u2019s subscription service while travelling via aircraft.&nbsp;Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funding is approximately $33 million, and the total cumulative face value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70868,"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-70865","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\/70865"}],"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=70865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}