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Protected Anti-jam Tactical SATCOM Marquee Effort for SMC

Protected Anti-jam Tactical SATCOM Marquee Effort for SMC
MIT Lincoln Laboratory personnel Joseph Zurkus, left, and Jacob Huang, right, operate a protected tactical waveform modem and collect data while Ted O'Connell, back, monitors terminal equipment during a flight test in the lab's Boeing 707, the Paul Revere, in October, 2017 (Lincoln Laboratory Photo)

The U.S. Space Force's Protected Anti-jam Tactical Satellite Communications (PATS) program is a marquee science, technology and innovation (ST&I) effort for the Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calf. "A great example of this unified approach on ST&I is the PATS program--our next generation tactical SATCOM family of systems meant to provide worldwide beyond line of sight anti-jam communications to warfighters in both benign and contested environments," Lt. Gen. John "JT" Thompson, the SMC…

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