{"id":8019,"date":"2023-11-10T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-space-defense-awarded-medium-earth-orbit-bpa-by-u-s-department-of-defense\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:37:14","slug":"ses-space-defense-awarded-medium-earth-orbit-bpa-by-u-s-department-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-space-defense-awarded-medium-earth-orbit-bpa-by-u-s-department-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Space &#038; Defense Awarded Medium Earth Orbit BPA by U.S. Department of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/ses_C_638351090934390402.jpg\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"SES Space &amp; Defense Awarded Medium Earth Orbit BPA by U.S. Department of Defense\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/ses_C_638351090934390402.jpg\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/ses_C_638351090934390402.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>SES Space &amp; Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) low-latency high-throughput satellite (HTS) services. The single-award BPA has a ceiling of just under USD 270 million over a five-year period.<\/p>\n<p>With this contract, SES Space &amp; Defense will continue to support U.S. DoD customers with industry-leading MEO low-latency HTS services globally. The BPA includes end-to-end MEO managed services with HTS capacity, broadband services, gateway services, monitoring and control services, satellite terminal leasing and sales, field service representative (FSR) support, training services, and terrestrial backhaul.<\/p>\n<p>SES Space &amp; Defense has been providing managed services to U.S. DoD end-users through numerous Task Orders on the original MEO low-latency HTS service BPA since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSES Space &amp; Defense is excited to receive this award, and we look forward to further supporting DoD users with SES\u2019s MEO HTS capabilities,\u201d said <strong>David Fields, SES Space &amp; Defense President and CEO<\/strong>. \u201cThe new BPA signifies the DoD\u2019s continued interest in MEO as a cornerstone commercial satellite communications capability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES Space &amp; Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) low-latency high-throughput satellite (HTS) services. The single-award BPA has a ceiling of just under USD 270 million over a five-year period. With this contract, SES Space [&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":[26,20],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019"}],"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=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}