{"id":73361,"date":"2015-09-01T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-viasat-and-optus-team-on-wgs-for-australia\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:01:15","slug":"northrop-grumman-viasat-and-optus-team-on-wgs-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-viasat-and-optus-team-on-wgs-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman, ViaSat and Optus Team on WGS for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-01-2015] <b>Northrop Grumman<\/b> together with <b>ViaSat <\/b>and <b>Optus <\/b>are responding to a tender from the <b>Australian Defence Force <\/b>(ADF) with a means for Australia to gain access to Northrop Grumman\u2019s Satellite Communications Operations and Planning Element (SCOPE) network management system for the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system. SCOPE is a managing, operating and monitoring system that has already been successfully integrated with the WGS, and <b>U.S. Army Strategy Command <\/b>has used it for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The solution includes dual-band satellite terminals from ViaSat, which recently delivered 10 complete ground stations for Australia\u2019s National Broadband Network (NBN) program, as well as satellite operating experience from Optus, which has a managed service contract with ADF recently extended to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia has invested approximately AU$1billion ($70 million) in WGS communications capabilities. Northrop Grumman\u2019s offering will give Australia the ability to fully utilize this capability at the same standard as the U.S. military,\u201d said Ian Irving, chief executive at Northrop Grumman Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-01-2015] Northrop Grumman together with ViaSat and Optus are responding to a tender from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) with a means for Australia to gain access to Northrop Grumman\u2019s Satellite Communications Operations and Planning Element (SCOPE) network management system for the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system. SCOPE is a managing, operating and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73362,"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-73361","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\/73361"}],"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=73361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}