While the military eagerly contracted for more commercial SATCOM capacity to assuage its hunger for bandwidth during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to need it to support deployed operations, specific military requirements including assurance of availability and access, anti-jamming and nuclear EMP hardening mean that dedicated military SATCOM (MILSATCOM) remains essential. These systems provide communications over wide areas, including those with little or no infrastructure, supporting C2, reachback, survivability, and resilience. Several major militaries are in the process of renewing and expanding their systems and NATO is looking for a complete new package.
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