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Efforts Improving Bandwidth, Spectrum Management For Warfighters

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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Department of Defense (DoD) is searching for ways to better optimize how it uses bandwidth whether it is over landlines, over satellite communications (SATCOM) or other radio frequency (RF) media, according to a defense official. Bandwidth management is a challenge, David Mihelcic, chief technology officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), told Defense Daily in a recent interview. 'Some of the things that you'll see that we have done in DISA is deploy technologies very…

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