{"id":83677,"date":"2012-01-17T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-air-force-issues-wgs-contract-modification-to-boeing\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:02:50","slug":"u-s-air-force-issues-wgs-contract-modification-to-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-air-force-issues-wgs-contract-modification-to-boeing\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Issues WGS Contract Modification to Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-17-12] <b>Boeing<\/b> has won a $377 million contract modification with the <b>U.S. Air Force <\/b>to continue work on its constellation of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites, the Pentagon confirmed Jan. 16.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The firm, fixed-price contract runs through May 2013 and exercises an option under a previously negotiated contract for Boeing to produce, process, launch and activate a ninth WGS satellite.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Three WGS satellites are now in orbit. Boeing is currently building three satellites as a prime contract with an additional three satellites being procured.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The Air Force said it was currently finalizing a deal with governments from five countries to buy into the WGS wideband communications constellation as it prepares for the launch of the fourth satellite, WGS-4 on Jan. 19. WGS-4 is the first WGS Block 2 satellite to include a bypass that allows for transmission of large data files required for shuttling airborne intelligence data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-17-12] Boeing has won a $377 million contract modification with the U.S. Air Force to continue work on its constellation of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites, the Pentagon confirmed Jan. 16. &nbsp; &nbsp;The firm, fixed-price contract runs through May 2013 and exercises an option under a previously negotiated contract for Boeing to produce, process, launch [&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-83677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83677"}],"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=83677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}