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DoD Faces Avionics Terminal Challenges

Frank Wolfe

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

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DoD Faces Avionics Terminal Challenges

US Air Force insignia on an aging jet plane.

On March 27, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Raytheon [RTN] and L3Harris [LHX] $500 million each to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems for the next generation Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS), but the applicable wave forms are largely DoD, not commercial, ones, and developing avionics terminals with commercial wave forms will be a challenge going forward for improving satellite communications for military aircraft. "You can solve this problem on the network side and on the…

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