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DoD Heightens Importance of Cybersecurity in Future Ground Systems

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

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The Department of Defense (DoD) wants to make sure its future ground system for government satellites, known as the Enterprise Ground Segment (EGS), makes cyber security a much bigger priority compared to the approach taken with ground systems currently in use, according to a key officer.Today, DoD ground systems for military satellite programs all run separate from each other. EGS will seek to unify ground segment operations onto a single comprehensive system, but DoD does not want to make that…

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