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After years of give and take among military and commercial space interests to better advance U.S. security, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) authored the American Space Renaissance Act to do just that.
His background puts him in a rare position to champion both.
“As a military pilot, I can attest that our national security and our very way

Cyber security requires a systemic approach to address three main tenets: availability, confidentiality and integrity. That’s because responsibility for the security of each is divided among the elements of a network, according to Vinit Duggal, Intelsat’s Director and Chief Information Security Officer, in an interview with Via Satellite.
“The satellite operator is responsible for ensuring the

With Special Operations troops deployed in as many as 100 spots around the world, and with the recent focus of the U.S. Army on quick-reaction capability, it’s clear that readiness is the prime driver of the military today.
Those troops and others need to be able to communicate and to send and receive the latest in

When Greg L. Zacharias told a Congressional subcommittee in November that the Air Force sought “the right balance of human and machine teaming to meet future operational challenges,” he also was summarizing a large part of the body of his professional work.
Zacharias, named the Air Force Chief Scientist in June 2015, has been marrying humans

A new paper, Ensuring U.S. Leadership in Space offers great insight into issues that may affect future U.S. competitiveness in the space arena. The product of 13 space organizations, the paper cites four issues that require “immediate attention” to prevent the United States from losing its space leadership position:  Budget uncertainty; international competition; the increasingly

Two paradigms are at work in the efforts of the U.S. military to get more capability from its larger remote piloted aircraft (RPA) platforms, Global Hawk and Predator variants.
The first is that sensor quality continually improves, generating more and better data. That includes full-motion, high-definition – and bandwidth eating — video, on which military intelligence,

With 75 satellites connecting through 550 antennas at 30 sites around the globe, Intelsat operates one of the most sophisticated communications networks in the world today.
This video details how our satellite operations and engineering team flies both Intelsat satellites and about 25 spacecraft owned by other companies. Together the satellites represent platforms built by all

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu, The Art of

This week I was honored to speak on a panel at the Satellite 2016 show at National Harbor across the Potomac from Washington, DC. The subject of the panel was government airborne satellite services.
Civil and military use of airborne platforms equipped with satellite terminals continues to expand, fueling an accelerating demand for beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) satellite

The American military faces an inflection point in space. Potential adversaries are aggressively developing new space capabilities in response to decades of U.S. preeminence. The DoD must respond to these developments in a reduced budgetary climate, and find more affordable ways to upgrade space assets and design a space architecture for the future.
In such a

Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), has spoken a number of times over the past few months around the central theme of strengthening U.S capabilities in space for military deterrence and global stability.
The space domain is increasingly competitive and congested. Over 60 nations currently operate satellites in space. Potential U.S. adversaries

The U.S. Director of National Intelligence has called cybercrime the number one security threat this country faces, even over terrorism, espionage or weapons of mass destruction. These threats demand that DoD become more nimble in response. As DoD’s CIO Terry Halvorsen recently told reporters: “I think the big difference in cyber that we’re having to

Frank Kendall expects to work his way out the door at the Department of Defense, and decisions concerning the DoD’s use of commercial satellite communications are among the tasks he intends to tackle in his last 11 months in office.
Speaking at the Washington Space Business Roundtable luncheon on Tuesday, the DoD’s Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology

Greater commercial cooperation and data sharing services would help ease the burden on the Air Force for monitoring and reporting on the location of thousands of objects in space that can cause collisions and interference, Intelsat General Corporation President Kay Sears told a government forum recently.
“The commercial industry has to organize itself and expand what

Satellite innovation continues to evolve at a rapid pace. For example, recently there have been developments in satellite modem technology that can mitigate satellite interference.
To get the latest, SatCom Frontier recently sat down with Stuart Daughtridge, Vice President for Advanced Technology at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a leading National Security Solutions provider.
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