{"id":84511,"date":"2011-07-21T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/stratos-inks-315-million-satcom-deal-with-u-s-military-sealift-command\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:09:39","slug":"stratos-inks-315-million-satcom-deal-with-u-s-military-sealift-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/stratos-inks-315-million-satcom-deal-with-u-s-military-sealift-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratos Inks $315 Million Satcom Deal with U.S. Military Sealift Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-20-11]The <b>U.S. Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization<\/b> has awarded <b>Inmarsat<\/b> subsidiary <b>Stratos Government Services<\/b> a maximum $315 million, eight-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide satellite communications to the <b>U.S. Military Sealift Command<\/b> (MSC), Stratos announced July 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The next-generation wideband commercial satellite communications infrastructure and Inmarsat\u2019s FleetBroadband service will replace MSC\u2019s current Bandwidth Efficient Satellite Transport (BEST) system.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract is structured as a four-year base period through July 2015, plus four more one-year option periods that could run the contract to July 2019<br \/>\n<b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c<\/b>The U.S. Military Sealift Command operates government ships, but they\u2019re crewed by civilian mariners. Far out at sea, no one can hear your cell phone. That\u2019s why ships of all kinds need satellite communications in order to stay in touch beyond their immediate task group,\u201d Stratos said in a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-20-11]The U.S. Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization has awarded Inmarsat subsidiary Stratos Government Services a maximum $315 million, eight-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide satellite communications to the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC), Stratos announced July 19. &nbsp;&nbsp; The next-generation wideband commercial satellite communications infrastructure and Inmarsat\u2019s FleetBroadband service will replace MSC\u2019s current Bandwidth Efficient [&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-84511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84511"}],"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=84511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}