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Space

Air Force Space Command to Reveal New SATCOM Strategy by End of 2019

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

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Air Force Space Command to Reveal New SATCOM Strategy by End of 2019

Artist's illustration of an AEHF protected communications satellite. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Air Force Space Command expects to release this year a new strategy for the service’s future satellite communications architecture to address lawmakers’ longtime concerns about stove-piped capabilities and offer a more holistic, cost-effective solution, AFSPC leaders said this week at the 35th annual Space Symposium here. The focus on great power competition has prompted the command to craft an “enterprise satcom vision” that seeks to develop SATCOM as a holistic enterprise, to include capabilities such as…

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