The US is adapting to the changing nature of communications and reconnaissance satellite hardware, as the space industry moves towards smaller and cheaper systems in low earth orbit (LEO) or medium earth orbit (MEO).
With this in mind, US Army Futures Command (AFC) is extending the range of tactical communications capabilities to augment military wideband global SATCOM when appropriate.
Willie Nelson, director of the Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing Cross-Functional Team in AFC, said that modernised technical capabilities being pursued by near-peer adversaries can create challenges for US forces.
He pointed to adversary anti-access area denial (A2/AD) capabilities, which threaten
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Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
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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