{"id":678,"date":"2007-07-18T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2007-07-18T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:08:05","slug":"viasat-nabs-49-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Nabs $49 Million Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know that Carlsbad&#8217;s military industrial complex is alive and well. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viasat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ViaSat, Inc.<\/a><\/strong>, a Carlsbad-based producer of &#8220;innovative satellite and other digital communication products&#8221; just won a $44.9 million contract to deliver &#8220;Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals from The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hard work by our team to provide innovation and best value continues to pay off,&#8221; said <strong>Paul Baca<\/strong>, vice president of Tactical Data Links at ViaSat. &#8220;We feel we are a technology leader in both the airborne and ground based terminal markets because we work closely with our customer and the end users to provide products that best meet their needs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And anything that helps our boys stay alive while they&#8217;re out killing <em>the enemy<\/em> is a plus as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By gathering information into a digital view of the battlefield, MIDS provides greater situational awareness in combat for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and for U.S. defense partners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/07\/18\/2793415.htm\" target=\"_blank\">TMCnet.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know that Carlsbad&#8217;s military industrial complex is alive and well. ViaSat, Inc., a Carlsbad-based producer of &#8220;innovative satellite and other digital communication products&#8221; just won a $44.9 million contract to deliver &#8220;Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals from The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego.&#8221; The hard work by our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}