{"id":81630,"date":"2013-01-29T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/itt-exelis-adds-follow-on-satellite-weather-tech-contract-to-afrl-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:49:07","slug":"itt-exelis-adds-follow-on-satellite-weather-tech-contract-to-afrl-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/itt-exelis-adds-follow-on-satellite-weather-tech-contract-to-afrl-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ITT Exelis Adds Follow-on Satellite Weather Tech Contract to AFRL Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-30-13] <strong>ITT Exelis<\/strong> received a follow-on contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide upgraded satellite remote sensor systems. Exelis will provide additional sensors, simulators and the ground support equipment required for future payload integration activities. Exelis is teamed with Ball Aerospace Technologies Company under the sponsorship of AFRL. The original contract was awarded in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The deal is worth an additional $3.2 million.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The Exelis Coherent Beacon System is a space-based sensor system that investigates and forecasts natural disturbances in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The sensor system transmits multiple signals through the ionosphere, or, the upper part of the atmosphere, to a ground-based receiver.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe new sensor system gives our customers advance knowledge about changes in space weather,\u201d ITT Exelis Director of Antenna and Space Programs Mark Fournier said in a statement. \u201cThis system will allow the U.S. military to predict the effects of ionospheric activity on signals from communication and navigation satellites, which are critical to the safety and performance of our warfighters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-30-13] ITT Exelis received a follow-on contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide upgraded satellite remote sensor systems. Exelis will provide additional sensors, simulators and the ground support equipment required for future payload integration activities. Exelis is teamed with Ball Aerospace Technologies Company under the sponsorship of AFRL. The original contract was [&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-81630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81630"}],"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=81630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}