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Battle Brewing Among Satellite Stakeholders Over Air Force SATCOM AoA

Pat Host

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

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Battle Brewing Among Satellite Stakeholders Over Air Force SATCOM AoA

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--A competition is brewing between commercial satellite operators and military satellite manufacturers as the two groups position themselves to best benefit from the Air Force's key wideband satellite communications (SATCOM) analysis of alternatives (AoA).The Air Force, in the next couple months, will release its AoA, an effort to solicit information from industry on what capabilities it could provide the service in the future. The AoA is critical as it will define how the government acquires SATCOM for the next…

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