{"id":79126,"date":"2013-12-11T20:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-dod-purchases-viasat-mids-lvt-block-upgrade-2-development\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T12:21:14","slug":"us-dod-purchases-viasat-mids-lvt-block-upgrade-2-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-dod-purchases-viasat-mids-lvt-block-upgrade-2-development\/","title":{"rendered":"US DoD Purchases ViaSat MIDS-LVT Block Upgrade 2 Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-11-13] The U.S. government has awarded <b>ViaSat <\/b>a development contract for Block Upgrade 2 (BU2) hardware and software upgrades to its Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) Link-16 terminals, valued at just under $34 million with options of for a further $5.7 million. The order resulted from a solicitation from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The order adds new functionality to the MIDS-LVT system fleet worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>MIDS-LVT forms the backbone of the Link-16 network across the U.S. <b>Department of Defense <\/b>(DoD) and the international coalition. Core terminal functions include Link-16 data as well as secure voice with TACAN capabilities on selected terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-11-13] The U.S. government has awarded ViaSat a development contract for Block Upgrade 2 (BU2) hardware and software upgrades to its Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) Link-16 terminals, valued at just under $34 million with options of for a further $5.7 million. The order resulted from a solicitation from Space and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79128,"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-79126","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\/79126"}],"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=79126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}