Four Pentagon offices are working together on an ambitious hybrid architecture that spans orbits as well as classification levels, officials told Breaking Defense.
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Another idea, said SSC’s Col. Dennis Birchenough, is for SSC to serve as a kind of “matchmaker” to pair ISR sensor developers with commercial operators with capacity to carry payloads extraneous to their own capabilities.
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The annual “State of Military Communications Technology” poll finds that only about a third of repondents believed that the Pentagon was moving quickly enough to adopt commercial technology and streamlined acquisition rules to be able to make necessary upgrades quickly.
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The Army, in particular, is looking for a “magic bullet” — one antenna that can receive SATCOM signals from constellations in LEO, MEO and GEO. But it may be disappointed due to the laws of physics, says Rick Lober, VP of defense and intelligence systems at Hughes.
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The strategy includes procuring SATCOM, space domain awareness and a handful of other commercial capabilities as “services” under leases or long-term contracts for access.
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Details of the plan will remain classified, but an unclassified outline is expected to reveal more about how Space Command intends to engage industry.
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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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How the Army can utilize new terminals under a SATCOM service agreement, perhaps without have to buy thousands of new ones, will be a factor in choosing providers for the pilot program, says Brig. Gen. Rob Collins.
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The new satellite, set to launch in 2024, could provide comms links with astronauts and rovers on the far side of the Moon, as well as to scientists at the South Pole.
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For DoD applications, 5G needs high levels of cybersecurity. Stand-alone 5G networks, like the Hughes network, are inherently more secure than older networks where 5G is added onto the existing network,” Rajeev Gopal, vice president, Advanced Programs, told Breaking Defense.
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“Undersea cable infrastructure is ripe for sabotage,” said Karen Jones, one of the authors of the study.
By Theresa Hitchens 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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“Viasat has been undergoing an existential crisis as it competes with SpaceX for the satcom market,” one industry source said.
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The planned buy with the largest potential value is for DoD-wide SATCOM services from commercial operators of p-LEO constellations, with multiple awards totaling $875 million slated in August 2022.
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