The Army National Guard says it is meeting with success in a pilot effort to leverage military communications capabilities to support domestic emergency disaster response.
According to one company, which did not qualify to compete, the Army "was always stubbornly committed" to requirements that could only be met by incumbents.
The Naval Satellite Operations Center has taken operational control of the fifth MUOS satellite to connect beyond line-of-sight mobile forces with simultaneous voice, video and mission data over a secure high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.
