{"id":82263,"date":"2012-10-23T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T09:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/raytheon-signs-51-million-army-contract-for-muos-radio-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T09:32:16","slug":"raytheon-signs-51-million-army-contract-for-muos-radio-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/raytheon-signs-51-million-army-contract-for-muos-radio-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon Signs $51 Million Army Contract for MUOS Radio Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-23-12] The <b>U.S. Army<\/b> has awarded a $51 million contract to <b>Raytheon<\/b> to produce, upgrade and modernize airborne radios, the company announced Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The modernization effort includes Phase 3 of the Mobile User Objective Service\/Cryptographic Modernization (MUOS\/CM) upgrade program, which significantly increases satellite capacity for soldiers. The Phase 3 software upgrade allows Raytheon to complete MUOS\/CM design tasks and prepare for Phase 4 qualification testing in 2013.<br \/>\nRaytheon has planned full-rate production for 2015.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe ARC-231 radio system has proven to be a very capable, high performing, multi-function radio set that adapts to changing application requirements with only software upgrades,\u201d Raytheon\u2019s Network Centric Systems Senior Program Manager David Patton said in a statement. \u201cBecause the equipment upgrades are backward compatible with existing equipment installations, minimal platform changes are required. This approach simplifies aircraft integration tasks and reduces upgrade costs.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;MUOS aims to replace the aging constellation of UHF follow-on communications satellites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-23-12] The U.S. Army has awarded a $51 million contract to Raytheon to produce, upgrade and modernize airborne radios, the company announced Oct. 23. &nbsp; &nbsp;The modernization effort includes Phase 3 of the Mobile User Objective Service\/Cryptographic Modernization (MUOS\/CM) upgrade program, which significantly increases satellite capacity for soldiers. The Phase 3 software upgrade [&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-82263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82263"}],"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=82263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}