For more than 500 days, the 
crews of the 41st Electronic Combat Squadron, Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., have flown their EC-130H Compass Call aircraft jamming enemy communications in Afghanistan. The 41st and its sister unit, the 43rd ECS, which supports operations in Iraq, cover not two AEFs, but all AEFs—otherwise known as low-density, high-demand units. Read here for our coverage of this type of LD/HD commodity.
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.
