{"id":182870,"date":"2024-02-16T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/viasat-completes-first-broadband-upgrade-on-military-sealift-fleet"},"modified":"2024-02-16T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:26:06","slug":"viasat-completes-first-broadband-upgrade-on-military-sealift-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/viasat-completes-first-broadband-upgrade-on-military-sealift-fleet","title":{"rendered":"Viasat completes first broadband upgrade on military sealift fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/viasat-completes-first-broadband-upgrade-on-military-sealift-fleet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Viasat announced it completed the first satellite broadband upgrade on board a Military Sealift Command ship, and expects to update 105 vessels over the next year. The work is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/cobham-satcom-will-supply-as-many-as-170-terminals-to-inmarsat-for-the-u-s-navy-military-sealift-command\/\">$578 million contract<\/a> that Inmarsat won in 2022 before it was <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.viasat.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/viasat-completes-acquisition-inmarsat\">acquired<\/a> by rival satellite operator Viasat.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy\u2019s sealift organization, responsible for providing ocean transportation to the Department of Defense, operates a fleet of approximately 125 civilian-crewed ships that replenish Navy vessels at sea, transporting military equipment and personnel, and strategically positioning cargo around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat is revamping the ships\u2019 satellite network from Ku-band to the company\u2019s Global Xpress Ka-band and the ELERA L-band systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Viasat announced it completed the first satellite broadband upgrade on board a Military Sealift Command ship, and expects to update 105 vessels over the next year. The work is part of a $578 million contract that Inmarsat won in 2022 before it was acquired by rival satellite operator Viasat. The U.S. Navy\u2019s sealift [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182870","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}