Segovia wins $450M satcom contract

Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph M. Anderson, a hospital corpsman with Expeditionary Port Unit (EPU) 115, holds a satellite dish steady while Petty Officer 1st Class Michael S. Napoleon, a boatswain’s mate with EPU 115, disassembles the dish on the Mobile Sealift Operations Center (MSOC) here during Exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) 2015. The MSOC provides critical communications equipment for managing port operations during austere conditions or when permanent structure is inoperative. The MSOC was operated by Sailors from Expeditionary Port Unit 115, a reserve unit based out of San Diego, and Military Sealift Command Office Korea based out of Busan, Republic of Korea. Exercise UFG 15 is a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored, Commander, PACOM-directed, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea annual joint/combined command post exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to enhance the combat readiness of ROK and U.S. supporting forces through combined and joint training while improving ROK-U.S. combat readiness, and combined and joint interoperability. (U.S. Navy photo by Grady T. Fontana/Released)

Originally published Sept. 9, 2015.

Segovia has been awarded a Defense Information Systems Agency contract, worth up to $450 million, for satellite communications services.

Under the five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, Segovia, which is owned by Inmarsat, will provide “worldwide commercial telecommunications services to include satellite capacity in C, Ku, Ka and X-Band for mobile and fixed satellite transceivers on maritime, airborne and ground platforms,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The contract features one base year and four one-year options.