"We're offering a very specialized services so we're not trying to compete in the general purpose broadband," Iridium CEO Matt Desch told Breaking Defense. "We don't have to be the primary; we may be the emergency or contingency kind of solution."
"I'm very confident that the JROC is having a significant impact, which is what I'm responsible to help with," Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady told reporters here today during the Pentagon's FY23 budget rollout.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Ellis, I Corps chief of staff, said his team was able to send mission command information from a Stryker, in mid-air transit aboard a C-17 headed to Guam, back to Joint Base Lewis-McChord using the airplane's antenna.
"A lot of people when they think of space-based capabilities, they always forget the ground segment," Mike Dean, the Pentagon's top SATCOM official, said.