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U.S. Space Force Budgets About $130 Million in Fiscal 2025 for Flexible SATCOM

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

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U.S. Space Force Budgets About $130 Million in Fiscal 2025 for Flexible SATCOM

A soldier attaches long-range radio equipment to a Humvee at Fort Greely, Alaska on Oct. 22, 2020 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Space Force's fiscal 2025 budget includes nearly $130 million for an Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) system to enable military forces to switch rapidly from one satellite band, orbit, or communications network to another. Satellites for U.S. and coalition military forces will likely be in a variety of orbits, including those in proliferated low Earth orbit (PLEO) and what has been the military's main communications belt--geosynchronous Equatorial orbit (GEO)--such as the 10 Boeing [BA] Wideband Global Satcom satellites.…

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