“A lot of people when they think of space-based capabilities, they always forget the ground segment,” Mike Dean, the Pentagon’s top SATCOM official, said.
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Asked by Breaking Defense when a final product might be available, SWAC official David Voss quipped, “Not fast enough from what we’ve been told.”
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“If the Space Systems Command is going to acquire other commercial services in the same fashion that CSCO has been acquiring commercial SATCOM, then that will not serve the warfighter well,” said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat.
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“We must have fully integrated offensive and defensive operations across all of our services, as well as our partners,” says Army Gen. James Dickinson, SPACECOM commander.
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“The Joint Force depends upon SATCOM communication services as part of its JADC2 and Internet of Things,” says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting technology innovation officer.
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“While we will extend and defend America’s competitive advantage in peacetime, the ultimate measure of our readiness is the ability to prevail should war initiate in, or extend to space,” the new Chief of Space Operations (CSO) Planning Guidance says.
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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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JADC2 is a forcing function, driving digital transformation of network infrastructure.
“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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“They’re cleaning up a bit of ‘the who’s in charge’ of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day,” one Pentagon expert said of the UCP’s changes to SPACECOM’s roles.
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“We think that p-LEO is a big deal. And there’s got to be a revolution that has to hit the ground segment, says Phil Carrai, president of Kratos’s space, training and cyber division.
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“They waste a lot of bandwidth right now,” Lober said of DoD’s SATCOM management.
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PTS is not a satellite per se, rather it is envisioned as a payload that could be carried by US military, commercial or even allied satellites.
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