{"id":80409,"date":"2013-08-09T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ssl-receives-us-air-force-contract-option\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:01:07","slug":"ssl-receives-us-air-force-contract-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ssl-receives-us-air-force-contract-option\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Receives US Air Force Contract Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 08-09-13] The <b>U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) <\/b>has awarded a contract option to <b>Space Systems Loral (SSL)<\/b> to continue developing and demonstrating affordable design concepts for next generation protected Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM).<\/p>\n<p>SSL has experience addressing changing requirements in mobile communications, broadband and high definition video broadcasting. For SMC\u2019s forthcoming Protected MILSATCOM efforts, SSL would develop cost-effective solutions for secure SATCOM connectivity for highly mobile platforms such as remotely piloted aircrafts and ground command and control vehicles operating in contested environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur extensive history in developing satellite communications systems positions SSL well to take a fresh look at affordable ways to provide advanced communications capability to the warfighter,\u201d said Eric Spittle, president, SSL Federal. \u201cThe award of this contract option is an excellent endorsement of our success in the first phase of the concept exploration process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 08-09-13] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded a contract option to Space Systems Loral (SSL) to continue developing and demonstrating affordable design concepts for next generation protected Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM). SSL has experience addressing changing requirements in mobile communications, broadband and high definition video broadcasting. For [&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-80409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80409"}],"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=80409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}