Executive Summary
Executive Summary
- Joint Vision 2010, Cooperative Engagement, and Network Centric Warfare has driven up requirements for information at an exponential rate
- Current and planned SATCOM systems will only satisfy 50-70% of warfighter requirements
- Use Commercial to augment MILSATCOM
- Prioritize and allocate scarce resources
- Need to leverage technology were possible to make existing systems more bandwidth efficient and to replace existing systems with state of the art SATCOM systems
- SATCOM is Navy’s lifeline to deployed forces