With Intelsat buy, SES targets European defense market
SES's American arm, SES Space & Defense, was awarded a five-year "Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract" to provide the US Army with satellite communications services.
Viasat sees Marine’s ‘SATCOM as a service’ buy as harbinger of change
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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Space Force eyes Iridium in quest for satellite broadband, say top company officials
"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."
AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic
"We'll have communications capability up there within the next year or so," said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
Army ‘Leading The Way’ In Commercial SATCOM Buys
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.
Space Force Fears COVID Loss Of Commercial Startups: Gen. Thompson
"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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Space Force Strategy Out In ‘Months’ In Time For Budget
"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.
2019 Space Economy Solid; Pandemic A Double-Edged Sword
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."
HASC, SASC Aim To Add Third NatSec Launch Provider
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.
Don’t Buy More SATCOM Bandwidth; Better Manage What You’ve Got: Hughes
"They waste a lot of bandwidth right now," Lober said of DoD's SATCOM management.
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Raymond OKs New Vision For Secure Battlefield Comms
"Adversaries understand the advantage SATCOM brings our warfighters and are working to deny, degrade, and destroy these capabilities," says the new strategy, released today.