{"id":86371,"date":"2010-08-20T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-signs-blue-force-tracking-development-deal-worth-300-million\/"},"modified":"2010-08-20T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:06:06","slug":"northrop-signs-blue-force-tracking-development-deal-worth-300-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-signs-blue-force-tracking-development-deal-worth-300-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Signs Blue Force Tracking Development Deal Worth $300 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-20-10] <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> has been selected by the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong> to provide encryption devices that will upgrade communications security of the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below FBCB2-Blue Force Tracking network, the company announced Aug. 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Under a five-year indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $300 million, Northrop Grumman will supply programmable in-line encryption devices for installation in FBCB2-BFT platforms and network operations centers worldwide. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FBCB2-BFT is a situational awareness and command-and-control system used by U.S. and coalition forces to allow warfighters to share critical information. To date, the Army has deployed more than 85,000 systems around the globe. Northrop\u2019s encryption devices will be fully interoperable with the Army\u2019s Joint Capability Release \u2014 the next version of FBCB2 software developed by Northrop Grumman \u2014 and is designed to support both the currently and next-generation networks.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The award builds off of an $18 million order the Army placed with Northrop Grumman in April. <strong>Harris Corp<\/strong>. is acting as Northrop Grumman\u2019s technology partner in the development and manufacture of the encryption unit, which is based on Harris\u2019 KGV-72 solution and will be manufactured at Harris facilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">ViaSat\u2019s Berry: Company Surprised by BFT-2 Contract Win<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 27, 2010<br \/>\n[07-27-10] In a decision that  shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat  the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army  vehicles with a next-generation tracking system intended to\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">U.S. Army Selects ViaSat for Blue Force Tracking 2 Contract<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 22, 2010<br \/>\n[07-22-10] The U.S. Army  selected ViaSat as the winner of the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2)  program contract over Comtech Mobile Datacom, the competitors announced  in separate statements issued July 21. ViaSat said it was\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">U.S. Army Places Blue Force Tracking Order with Comtech<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 9, 2010<br \/>\n[07-09-10] Comtech Mobile  Datacom Corp. received a $22.2 million order for mobile satellite data  communications transceivers under its $384 million Blue Force Tracking  (BFT) IDIQ program contract with the U.S. Army, the company\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-20-10] Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Army to provide encryption devices that will upgrade communications security of the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below FBCB2-Blue Force Tracking network, the company announced Aug. 19. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Under a five-year indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $300 million, Northrop Grumman will supply [&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-86371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86371"}],"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=86371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}