ViaSat has been awarded the IDIQ contract to supply the next generation of high speed, high capacity, low latency BFT equipment to the U.S. Army as part of the FBCB2 Program.

Selected to upgrade the US Army and Marine Corps Blue Force Tracking network, ViaSat brings real-time situational awareness and better networking capabilities to the warfighter with BFT-2. ViaSat's next-generation Blue Force Tracking transceivers provide dramatic improvements in situational awareness through faster Position Location Information (PLI) refresh rates and greater information throughput features. This BFT-2 system delivers improved network efficiency and reduces the Department of Defense’s total operational expenditure for the specified capability.

 

With BFT-2, network users can achieve real-time position accuracy by operating through a Ground Vehicular Transceiver or Aviation Transceiver to one of up to ten satellite channels back to a Satellite Ground Station (SGS). The average round-trip message latency through the network has been demonstrated and proven to be less than 2 seconds.

 

• Small BFT-2 satellite terminals for a variety of ground vehicles and small aircraft
• Hub equipment for high-speed two-way access to ground and airborne terminals
• FIPS 140-2 Level 2 data link security to protect from adversarial traffic analysis and data probing
• Network Operations Center (NOC) equipment for overall network monitoring and control
• Backbone network to connect all FBCB2 NOCs into a single network for worldwide interoperability
• Integration with FBCB2 software
• Engineering services in support of the BFT-2 network