Commercial SATCOM providers have long urged DoD and the services to move from buying bandwidth in fits and starts using short-term contracts to service-style contracts that resemble a civilian’s average mobile phone or cable TV/Internet plan.
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“We’re offering a very specialized services so we’re not trying to compete in the general purpose broadband,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch told Breaking Defense. “We don’t have to be the primary; we may be the emergency or contingency kind of solution.”
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“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
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Major SATCOM providers — such as Hughes (a subsidiary of SATCOM giant Echostar), Viasat, Intelsat, Inmarsat, SES and Eutelsat — argue that this would not only ease problems with service gaps that have long plagued troops in the field, but also be cheaper and allow speedier integration of new technology.
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“I’m not sure yet if we figured out a way to ensure part of that (commercial market) will survive,” Gen. DT Thompson said.
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“At the end of the day, anyone who’s using satellite communications doesn’t really care where that information comes from,” Lt. Gen. William Liquori says.
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SIA is hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will have only limited effects on the satellite industry, since it has been “generally deemed essential by governments.”
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Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The HASC chair’s markup chides the GPS III program for “unjustified cost growth” in both Lockheed Martin’s GEO-based space segment and Raytheon’s OCX.
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“They waste a lot of bandwidth right now,” Lober said of DoD’s SATCOM management.
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“Adversaries understand the advantage SATCOM brings our warfighters and are working to deny, degrade, and destroy these capabilities,” says the new strategy, released today.
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