African nations have a fundamental issue with ground infrastructure that is holding the region back from full SATCOM capabilities.
While SATCOMs, commercial or military, can offer a solution to communication problems across Africa the ground network is not sufficiently advanced enough to be able to utilise any capability that might become available.
Speaking on a panel at the Global MilSatcom conference in London, Mark Lambert, MD at Advantech Wireless said: ‘Ultimately cost is holding Africa back, industry needs to work on how we can develop solutions that can be acceptable to the costs that African nations can afford.’
Two main scenarios were identified
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The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.
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