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Navy Plans Expanding Vipersat COMSATCOM Technology In FY ’16

Navy Plans Expanding Vipersat COMSATCOM Technology In FY ’16
The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

The Navy plans on expanding a commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) technology that enables bandwidth sharing throughout its patrol coastal (PC) fleet by fiscal year 2016. The technology, known Vipersat, improves the efficiency of bandwidth purchased by dynamically-adjusting bandwidth among various ships to meet mission and data throughput, or capacity, requirements, according to a Navy spokesman. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) spokesman Steven Davis said Nov. 20 Vipersat allows the Navy to get increased capability without spending additional funding…

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