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November 5, 2013 By AMK

DISA keeps Iridium satellite access with $438 million in new contracts

Military and other federal users will continue to have access over the next five years to the Iridium satellite constellation, which supports handheld phones, through a set of contracts worth $438 million that the Defense Information Systems Agency signed with the company in October.

DISA awarded Iridium a $400 million airtime contract on Oct. 18 and on Tuesday signed a $38 million deal with the company to for maintenance and support of the DISA-owned satellite gateway located on Wahiawa, Honolulu, Hawaii and first turned on in 1998.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2013/10/disa-keeps-iridium-satellite-access-438-million-new-contracts/72524

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DISA, DoD, GPS, satellite

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