{"id":82080,"date":"2012-11-14T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/globecomm-wins-4-5-million-upgrade-deal-on-natos-gps-fts-program\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:53:51","slug":"globecomm-wins-4-5-million-upgrade-deal-on-natos-gps-fts-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/globecomm-wins-4-5-million-upgrade-deal-on-natos-gps-fts-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Globecomm Wins $4.5 Million Upgrade Deal on NATO\u2019s GPS FTS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Communications solutions provider<strong> Globecomm Systems<\/strong> received a $4.5 million contract from the <strong>NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)<\/strong> to upgrade its previously deployed GPS-Based Force tracking System (FTS) to handle additional capacity and add additional features, Globecomm announced Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe upgrade deal builds on a previously announced NATO contracts awarded to Globecomm totaling approximately $61.3 million to design and install a GPS FTS, bringing the combined contract value to approximately $65.8 million. The FTS aims to provide NATO with high levels of tracking data and messaging traffic and to identify where its personnel are located at all times, identify other multi-national forces and have the ability to do so in routine and operational situations.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tGlobecomm Vice President Paul Knudsen said the capability is critical in assisting with the identification of friendly forces and helps prevent fratricide or \u201cblue-on-blue\u201d incidents.<br \/>\n\t\u201cGlobecomm has been providing this important service to this customer for more than 5 years,\u201d said Knudsen. \u201cThis upgrade is required to allow the system to handle additional communications traffic as well as replace equipment that has reached its\u2019 end of serviceable life. Globecomm is pleased to continue to support this customer in providing these critical services.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Communications solutions provider Globecomm Systems received a $4.5 million contract from the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) to upgrade its previously deployed GPS-Based Force tracking System (FTS) to handle additional capacity and add additional features, Globecomm announced Nov. 13. The upgrade deal builds on a previously announced NATO contracts awarded [&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-82080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82080"}],"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=82080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}