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Air Force

Air Force Releases Two RFIs Related to Future Evolved Strategic SATCOM Program

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, April 24th, 2019

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Air Force Releases Two RFIs Related to Future Evolved Strategic SATCOM Program

An artist's illustration of an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite. Image: Air Force.

The Air Force this week released two requests for information related to the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) program that will eventually replace the service’s current Advanced EHF (AEHF) satellite constellation. Both notices were posted April 23 to FedBizOpps, with one related to market research on the ESS Ground Control Segment (GCS). “In an effort to better position the ESS GCS to meet ESS requirements, ESS is conducting market research for a ground demonstration phase to streamline and evolve two…

Army

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Army

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