{"id":193740,"date":"2024-07-29T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/akima-lands-480-million-space-force-contract-to-modernize-satellite-control-network"},"modified":"2024-07-29T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:19:35","slug":"akima-lands-480-million-space-force-contract-to-modernize-satellite-control-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/akima-lands-480-million-space-force-contract-to-modernize-satellite-control-network","title":{"rendered":"Akima lands $480 million Space Force contract to modernize Satellite Control Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/akima-lands-480-million-space-force-contract-to-modernize-satellite-control-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force awarded Akima\u2019s subsidiary Five Rivers Analytics a $480 million 10-year contract to support and modernize the Satellite Control Network \u2014 a decades-old system of 19 globally distributed parabolic antennas spread across several locations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Akima, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned defense contractor, won the contract dubbed STORMS (Satellite Control Network Tracking Station Operations, Remote Site and Mission Partner Support).<\/p>\n<p>The STORMS contract is an Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement. This type of contract allows the Space Force to procure services as needed over a specified period. It succeeds the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/caci-wins-445-million-air-force-contract-to-maintain-satellite-control-network\/\">previous $445 million CAMMO<\/a> (Consolidated Air Force Satellite Control Network Modifications and Maintenance Operations) contract won by CACI International in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force awarded Akima\u2019s subsidiary Five Rivers Analytics a $480 million 10-year contract to support and modernize the Satellite Control Network \u2014 a decades-old system of 19 globally distributed parabolic antennas spread across several locations worldwide. Akima, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned defense contractor, won the contract dubbed STORMS (Satellite Control Network [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193740","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=193740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}