ViaSat Receives US$
9.8 Million Order For MIDS JTRS Production Transition Terminals
(17 July 2008) ViaSat Inc. has been
awarded a US$ 9.8 million order for Multifunctional Information Distribution
System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) Production Transition Terminals
(PTTs).
MIDS JTRS is designed to enable the warfighter to use
multiple JTRS approved waveforms, such as the Wideband Networking Waveform
(WNW), and to increase channel information throughput and security.
With
the Department of Defense advocating the software-defined radio approach of
JTRS, the Navy has awarded contracts to engineer and qualify JTRS compliance
into the next generation MIDS. ViaSat is one of two U.S. government-qualified
developers of the MIDS JTRS - or MIDS-J - terminal, which is designed to be
plug-and-play interchangeable for U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force platforms that
use MIDS Low Volume Terminals (LVT) to retain the investment in MIDS LVT. This
award is a follow-on to the initial PTT order received in June 2007 from the
Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego.
The
terminal is designed to operate using new communication protocols and perform
new applications that will more easily integrate into many host platforms.
MIDS-J uses Link 16 and TACAN functions as well as three 2 MHz to 2 GHz
programmable channels. MIDS-J provides improvements such as Link 16 enhanced
throughput, Link 16 frequency re-mapping, and programmable crypto. This PTT
order is for terminals with the three channel 2 MHz -2GHz capability as well as
terminals with Link 16 and TACAN functionality only.
About
ViaSat
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other communication
products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any
location. The Company provides networking products and managed network services
for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military
communications and encryption technologies to the U.S. government; and is the
primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for
consumer and mobile satellite broadband services. The company's four wholly
owned subsidiaries, US Monolithics, Efficient Channel Coding, Enerdyne
Technologies, and Intelligent Compression Technologies, design and produce
complementary products such as monolithic microwave integrated circuits, DVB-S2
satellite communication components, video data link systems, and data
acceleration and compression products. ViaSat has locations in Carlsbad, CA,
and Duluth, GA, along with its Comsat Laboratories division in Germantown, MD.
Additional field offices are located in Boston, MA, Baltimore, MD, Washington
DC, Australia, China, India, Italy, and Spain.
(source:
ViaSat)
