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Air Force Issues RFI For WGS Military Terminal System

Monday, October 15th, 2012

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The Air Force seeks information from industry as it formulates contract approaches for combining a potential Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Military Ka-band/Commercial Ka-band airborne SATCOM terminal system, according to a notice posted on Federal Business Opportunities. The service also requests industry recommendations for business case formulation associated with transitioning from existing Ku-band Aero Mobile Satellite Services (AMSS) systems to alternative Ka-band AMSS systems to include maximum utilization of WGS. The approach must also include an interoperability roadmap between WGS and…

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