The Army gave General Dynamics Corp. [GD] a $119 million contract change to provide additional Ku- and Ka-band terminals at ground facilities, the company announced.
That will increase satellite communications Earth terminals and support services in increment one of the WIN-T program.
Under the contract, General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies will provide 293 Satellite Transportable Terminals (STT), 6 Unit Hub SATCOM Trucks (UHST) and 534 Ka-band upgrade kits and spares.
The next-generation STT terminals enable network operation over Ku- or Ka-band satellite frequencies. The new UHST unit hubs provide Ku- or Ka-band access and more modem capacity. Both the STTs and UHSTs are interoperable with satellite communications (SATCOM) units currently in use by the Army.
The General Dynamics delivery order was made through exercised options on an existing World Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS) delivery order, managed by the WIN-T program manager’s Commercial Satellite Terminal Program (CSTP) in Ft. Monmouth, N.J.
This modification to the existing delivery order brings the contract’s total value to date to $378 million for 956 STTs and 17 UHSTs, which represent approximately half of the hardware quantities available on the four-year program.