{"id":85625,"date":"2010-12-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-receives-13-8-million-u-s-army-bft-2-order\/"},"modified":"2010-12-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:00:00","slug":"viasat-receives-13-8-million-u-s-army-bft-2-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-receives-13-8-million-u-s-army-bft-2-order\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Receives $13.8 Million U.S. Army BFT-2 Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-23-10] <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> received $13.8 million in Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) follow-on orders from the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong>, the company announced Dec. 21.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The order is part of ViaSat\u2019s $477 million BFT-2 indefinite-delivery, indefinite contract awarded in August and follows an initial delivery order for $37.7 million. ViaSat\u2019s BFT-2 system is derived from its ArcLight mobile satcom technology, which uses VSAT antennas to provide broadband communications-on-the-move voice, video and services to military and commercial users.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThese follow-on task orders demonstrate our customer\u2019s commitment to our new system and the desire to transition to the BFT-2 architecture as quickly as possible. We\u2019re working closely with the FBCB2 program team to ensure successful fielding of this network upgrade,\u201d ViaSat Vice President of Command and Control Situational Awareness Phil Berry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-23-10] ViaSat received $13.8 million in Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) follow-on orders from the U.S. Army, the company announced Dec. 21. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The order is part of ViaSat\u2019s $477 million BFT-2 indefinite-delivery, indefinite contract awarded in August and follows an initial delivery order for $37.7 million. ViaSat\u2019s BFT-2 system is derived from its ArcLight [&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-85625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85625"}],"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=85625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}