{"id":84549,"date":"2011-07-12T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/newsat-awarded-2-35-million-in-new-military-contracts\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T11:30:23","slug":"newsat-awarded-2-35-million-in-new-military-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/newsat-awarded-2-35-million-in-new-military-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"NewSat Awarded $2.35 Million in New Military Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<strong>NewSat<\/strong>&nbsp;signed $2.35 million in new contracts during May and June to provide satellite communication services to Australian Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, the company announced July 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The new contracts include: a proactive communications agreement to provide satellite service for U.S. Military troops in Southern Afghanistan; contracts with Atlas Iron and Nixon Communications to provide satellite connectivity for remote pipeline construction and mining operations in Australia; a contract with Hitron to support satellite projects across Papua New Guinea; and a partnership in Timor Leste to provide&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Navy&nbsp;<\/strong>satcom service.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, NewSat CEO Adrian Ballintine said the new contracts have increased the company\u2019s 2011 financial year business total to $16 million. \u201cNewSat\u2019s focus on military, mining, oil and gas has seen NewSat deliver consistent results, quarter-after-quarter. This positions us well for our first geostationary communications satellite, Jabiru-1, which will deliver greater satellite capacity to these markets.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;NewSat&nbsp;signed $2.35 million in new contracts during May and June to provide satellite communication services to Australian Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, the company announced July 7. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The new contracts include: a proactive communications agreement to provide satellite service for U.S. Military troops in Southern Afghanistan; contracts with Atlas Iron and Nixon [&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-84549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84549"}],"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=84549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}