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Congress Pushing For Multi-Year Commercial Satellite Acquisition Strategy

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

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Congress Pushing For Multi-Year Commercial Satellite Acquisition Strategy

The fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill awaiting final passage in Congress would require the Defense Department to develop a strategy for multi-year procurement of commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services to lower the cost of bandwidth, according to a statement from House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Republicans. Due to the growth in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), DoD has been buying COMSATCOM bandwidth at the last minute in one-year intervals, a process known as “spot buying,” and a costly way…

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