In the Space Force’s push to increase its consumption of commercial satellite capabilities, satellite communications stands out as the template. The question now is how broadly the Space Force will look to leverage additional SATCOM providers.
The Space Force took its first tentative steps last month toward leveraging commercial space providers to augment military capabilities with four small, short-term contracts to enhance space domain awareness.
The Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office is forecasting a busy 2025, with somewhere around $2.3 billion dollars in contracts not only for USSF, but also combatant commands and every other military service.
The Department of Defense is finalizing a new technical reference architecture (TRA) for satcom terminals it will buy—a highly detailed description of the engineering requirements for the devices, which maintain global two-way satellite communications for aircraft and other deployed forces. And for the first time, ...
Within 30 days, the Space Force office that buys commercial satellite services for the Department of Defense will publish a timeline for the implementation of new cybersecurity standards that private-sector satellite communication providers must meet if they want to compete for contracts to supply the ...