SWAC ponders acquisition strategy, limits of user terminals in future SATCOM plan
Asked by Breaking Defense when a final product might be available, SWAC official David Voss quipped, "Not fast enough from what we've been told."
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Asked by Breaking Defense when a final product might be available, SWAC official David Voss quipped, "Not fast enough from what we've been told."
Space System Command's overarching goal is to develop "diverse" capabilities for space domain awareness across all orbits.
In 2022, the Pentagon will need to see real movement on acquisition reform to reduce long understood vulnerabilities that have been essentially ignored for many years.
Included among the STP-3 mission's payloads is NASA’s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) aimed at enabling higher speed communications across the vast region of space between the Earth and Mars.
Brig. Gen. John Olson said that for JADC2 to work, "artificial intelligence and machine learning are absolutely essential enablers to make us able to react, and respond, and again, make sense of the information, then act upon it."