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DoD Must Eliminate Hurdles To Innovative COMSATCOM Business Deals, Air Force Says

Gally Articola

Monday, October 21st, 2013

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The Defense Department, and, where appropriate, Congress, must eliminate hurdles that inhibit it from exercising innovative commercial satellite communication (COMSATCOM) business arrangements that enable more efficient and responsive acquisition of the COMSATCOM services it needs, Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) said in a white paper obtained by Defense Daily. The white paper, called Impediments and New Approaches for Leveraging Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) in Support of the Air Force and Defense Department, builds a case for action to fund and execute a demonstration…

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