{"id":85202,"date":"2011-03-15T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-navy-issues-phase-3-dtcs-follow-on-award-to-iridium\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:54:39","slug":"u-s-navy-issues-phase-3-dtcs-follow-on-award-to-iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-navy-issues-phase-3-dtcs-follow-on-award-to-iridium\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Issues Phase 3 DTCS Follow-On Award to Iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-15-11] The <strong>U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Center<\/strong> signed a follow-on task order with an <strong>Iridium Communications<\/strong> subsidiary to implement Phase 3 of the Navy\u2019s Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS) program, Iridium announced March 14.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The task order investment is valued at $13.4 million and will see Iridium develop enhancements to the overall DTCS infrastructure, including the implementation of theater-wide or global reach nets, higher capacity and improved quality of service. The investment also enables Iridium to develop prototype next-generation user equipment.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DTCS handheld push-to-talk radios use the Netted Iridium satellite network to provide over-the-horizon, beyond line-of-sight tactical networks for warfighters on the move. The <strong>U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency<\/strong> (DISA) also deploys DTCS radios through its enhanced MSS program management office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-15-11] The U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Center signed a follow-on task order with an Iridium Communications subsidiary to implement Phase 3 of the Navy\u2019s Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS) program, Iridium announced March 14. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The task order investment is valued at $13.4 million and will see Iridium develop enhancements to the overall DTCS 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-85202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85202"}],"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=85202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}