Those eager to see the long-awaited Mobility Capabilities Study have to wait a while longer. The latest word from the Pentagon is to expect it “sort of between September and October.” That was the response Michael Wynne, DOD’s No. 2 acquisition official, gave a reporter for Inside Defense.com (requires subscription) at a conference in Anaheim, Calif. Gen. Norton Schwartz, new head of TRANSCOM, told Senators in July that the study was done.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
