{"id":102340,"date":"2020-02-13T17:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/northrop-grumman-to-develop-jam-resistant-payload-for-u-s-military-communications-satellites"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:12:37","slug":"northrop-grumman-to-develop-jam-resistant-payload-for-u-s-military-communications-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/northrop-grumman-to-develop-jam-resistant-payload-for-u-s-military-communications-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant payload for U.S. military communications satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-to-develop-jam-resistant-payload-for-u-s-military-communications-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman was awarded a $253.5 million contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop a cyber-secure communications payload that could be deployed on a military or commercial satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center announced Feb. 12 that Northrop Grumman was the first vendor selected to build a prototype payload under the Protected Tactical Satellite Communications (PTS) program that the U.S. Air Force started in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>As many as four prototype payloads will be funded under the PTS program. Two payloads will be selected to launch in 2024 for on-orbit demonstrations that will last three to five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman was awarded a $253.5 million contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop a cyber-secure communications payload that could be deployed on a military or commercial satellite. The U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center announced Feb. 12 that Northrop Grumman was the first vendor selected to build a prototype [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}