The US Army is expanding the volume of purchases of satellite communications services from commercial companies

The US Army is actively implementing a program to develop and improve communication channels using advanced technologies, including increasing the purchase of services from commercial companies. One of the priorities, the Pentagon said, is to expand the use of satellite Internet to such a level that the armed forces in this matter keep pace with private users, who have a wide choice of operator services and tariff plans.

Colonel J. Shane Taylor, who leads the Command Control Communications - Tactical (C3-T) pilot program for the development of communications networks for the needs of the US Armed Forces, said in an interview with the military analytical publication Breaking Defense:

There is a need to increase the bandwidth in the area of ​​satellite communications. One of the big benefits of this is that it allows us to keep up with new solutions as they become available, using the latest technology that comes from private companies every year.

One of the benefits of using a wide range of commercial communications services is the ease of use by soldiers in the field, Taylor explained. Connection between military personnel should be made with maximum simplicity, when any communication device or computer can connect with each other via available data channels, having the ability to choose the fastest and most reliable connection method.

At the same time, at the macro level, a technology is being developed to create a common network of various types of communications with single control centers, which will bear the main burden of analyzing and redistributing traffic and processing data. This will make communication between field devices as simple and reliable as possible.

As part of a pilot project, the Pentagon recently awarded a wide range of services to one of the oldest commercial satellite communications companies, SATCOM. In addition, until December 16, a tender must be held to select a managed service (SaaMS) operator for the Satellite Communications (SATCOM) communications network.

By diversifying through the acquisition of a wide range of services on an alternative basis from private companies, the Pentagon expects to increase access to the latest technologies and increase the ability to customize communications in army units at both the horizontal and vertical management levels. In addition, a competitive approach in choosing an operator should lead to cost savings. Next year, COMSATCOM's commercial satellite communications pilot program is set for just $100 million, and Taylor says "we can't go over that."

Comments

[Alien From]

At least they have something to buy. Trampoline in the past, mattress crackers are not like ours)))

[Invoce]

the Americans are not yet aware that all their high-tech turbulence will be taken out of action in the first days of the emergence of threats to the security of Russia. There is no reception against scrap. And the Russian tank is not as scary as the creative crew ..

[APASUS]

Quote: Invoce

the Americans are not yet aware that all their high-tech crap will be taken out of action in the first days of the emergence of threats to Russia's security.

They understand everything, so they don’t get into the conflict directly, but they provide this information. And we all listen to fairy tales about our GLONASS and other successes

[Leonidych]

It’s time for us to start landing their commercial satellites that direct Khokhlatsky UAVs at our airfields, conduct reconnaissance, and generally give real-time target designations.

[forty-eighth]

Is there some non-fantastic way to land satellites?

[Horon]

That is, civilian satellites with a slight movement of the hand turned into military satellites? Then talk about peaceful space can be stopped, war has entered space in all its manifestations, only hypocrisy remains. And there, if you scrape it well, it turns out that there are already nuclear weapons there.

[HAM]

Here are the results from the training ground called "Ukraine". The Yankees draw preliminary conclusions, correct mistakes, get real experience. There would be no such result with the "barmaley".
The main thing is yourself, no matter what it has to do with it .... and experience is gaining ....

[evgen1221]

They go from power to corporations and from corporations to power, but friends remain here and there. Well, in order not to contribute to friends, and there is also a direct promotion of their people in both directions to more profitable positions. Eh, this would be energy and for peaceful purposes, Jupiter would have been inhabited long ago.

[Mavrikiy]

The US Army is expanding the volume of purchases of satellite communications services from commercial companies

Maybe they are trying for Trump ...

[Conjurer]

This is the same as using civilian vehicles in the army. In the rear, you can, but on the front line?

[iouris]

You don't have to be deceived. Only state structures work in space. And "private firms" are for averting eyes and attracting money.
Here, for example, computer games on military (and other) topics allow you to receive income from the development of purely military simulators. And it works.

[filibuster]

You don't have to be deceived. Only state structures work in space. And "private firms" are for averting eyes and attracting money.

So don't be fooled by private companies have public financial information.

Here, for example, computer games on military (and other) topics allow you to receive income from the development of purely military simulators. And it works.

You are talking nonsense to put it mildly, military simulators and military-themed computer games have little in common.

[n-Stozhar]

A scam for the Raffians. All licensed satellites have a dual purpose. The only question is when it's paid and when it's free .. the mask twitched, twitched in front of the US NSA and wilted before landing. to exchange one for five mobs, and not for fifty, as recently .. and they don’t want to go to the front of the large diameter pipeline .. so here ... but what will the West do to return the exchange, say twenty to one? I remember in North Korea the exchange of three instants and dry for one phantom, the Merikosses recognized it as unacceptable .. not like before seven to one ... well, who remembers. And the war was turned off ... so was Vietnam. By analogy ... as the current exchange will become three mobs, one merikoss, also curtailed .. not profitable for the bourgeoisie!

[Lech from Android.]

What country are you from, dearest ... your thoughts are vague like words.

[n-Stozhar]

Dear, how about you? I don’t like that any platoon khakhol, with good will, a mask and payment for the type of commercial shots by some kind of sponsors, sees the tbd in real time .... and I don’t like that Western mercenaries don’t want current in the trenches of Arteminsk near Rusartu .. .in the rest of the places for them the rules!