Ligado files Chapter 11, commences restructuring to slash debt burden
Meanwhile, the company said it has no intentions of dropping its lawsuit against the federal government over L-band spectrum use.
Meanwhile, the company said it has no intentions of dropping its lawsuit against the federal government over L-band spectrum use.
"Ligado fails to plead any plausible facts to support its purely speculative claim that the Government has occupied its licensed spectrum," alleges the DoJ motion to dismiss the satellite communication firm's suit in US Federal Claims Court.
Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX's Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.
While DoD interested in the potential of satellite-to-wireless, government, military and industry officials speaking at Satellite 2023 recognized there also are a number of challenges for military operators.
STRATCOM's Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center is focused primarily on repelling threats from Russia and China, but DoD also faces a potentially crippling spectrum grab by US commercial 5G wireless giants.
The plan is for Space Systems Command's Commercial Satellite Communications Office to set up a contracting vehicle that allows military users to buy satellite-direct-to-cellular communications capability as a service, said Clare Grason, who heads that office.
The OSCAR effort is designed do develop AI/ML software that can detect spectrum interference and re-route users to open comms channels in near real time.
"While we're all focused on 5G, and we've got a lot of possibilities in 5G, we also know 5G is not an endpoint," said Dan Massey, one of three 5G program leads at OUSDR&E. "So, what goes beyond 5G?"
PENTAGON: The Army showed off an impressive array of battlefield wi-fi gadgetry today in the Pentagon courtyard, exhibiting new-found realism about what gadgets it might not need. Consider the hardware to connect the individual foot soldier to the brigade-wide command network, which has been stripped down from a 14-pound prototype to a militarized smartphone plugged […]