{"id":83050,"date":"2012-05-30T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iridium-comes-through-initial-trials-of-u-s-dod-ptt-radio-system\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:19:46","slug":"iridium-comes-through-initial-trials-of-u-s-dod-ptt-radio-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iridium-comes-through-initial-trials-of-u-s-dod-ptt-radio-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium Comes Through Initial Trials of U.S. DoD PTT Radio System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-30-12] &nbsp;<b>Cambridge Consultants <\/b>and<b> Iridium Communications <\/b>have successfully completed initial trials of key new components of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS), a major push-to-talk (PTT) radio system. Iridium confirmed the successful trials May 29.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DTCS enables soldiers in isolated areas to communicate without the need for ground infrastructure \u2014 and in locations where they often can\u2019t pick up a geostationary satellite\u2019s signal unless they move to higher ground.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The \u201cnetted\u201d group call communication system \u2014 involving listeners in designated user \u201cnets\u201d \u2014 provides over-the-horizon, beyond line-of-sight tactical networks. Soldiers in remote combat zones or disaster areas are able to use lightweight handheld PTT radios to exchange mission-critical data with command centers across the globe, at the touch of a button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-30-12] &nbsp;Cambridge Consultants and Iridium Communications have successfully completed initial trials of key new components of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS), a major push-to-talk (PTT) radio system. Iridium confirmed the successful trials May 29. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DTCS enables soldiers in isolated areas to communicate without the need for ground infrastructure [&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-83050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050"}],"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=83050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}