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Senate Appropriators Recommend Additional $25 Million For Protected Tactical Waveform

Pat Host

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

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Senate Appropriators Recommend Additional $25 Million For Protected Tactical Waveform

An artist's illustration of an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite. Image: Air Force.

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) last week approved an additional $25 million in fiscal year 2016 for the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) mission.The committee, in its report accompanying the bill, said it is concerned that the PTW mission management system and ground station hub electronics and software are not being co-developed, which the committee believes could lead to a multi-year delay in the fielding of the system and the potential for non-optimal system…

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