Inmarsat wins $410 million U.S. Army contract to connect tracking devices - SpaceNews

Inmarsat Government volition supply internet-of-things outer connectivity for U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker devices

WASHINGTON — Inmarsat Government announced Nov. 7 it won a $410 million, five-year declaration hold to supply internet-of-things outer connectivity for U.S. Army battlefield tracking devices. 

The contract, awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency, is for the Army’s Blue Force Tracker web services.

Inmarsat Government, based successful Reston, Virginia, is simply a subsidiary of British communications outer relation Inmarsat. 

Inmarsat Government volition link the Blue Force Tracker utilizing a caller web called ELERA, designed to enactment IoT services utilizing its existing L-band satellites. This web volition supply connectivity betwixt Blue Force Tracker transceivers and outer crushed stations.

Blue Force tracker devices show affable unit tracking accusation connected tens of thousands of Army platforms.

Inmarsat Government won a erstwhile declaration successful 2017 to enactment the Blue Force Tracker network, which has been successful cognition since 2002. The newest mentation of Blue Force Tracker has accrued web capableness to transportation data, and was designed to beryllium much resilient against physics warfare attacks.