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National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Mobile Broadband for Roaming Troops: Pipe Dream or Reality? Soldiers on the front line have little or no access to the Internet and their communication is limited to line-of-sight radios. The Defense Department is working on improving this, but will they succeed?
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean	Industry Sees Growing Market For Personal Tracking Devices Troops in combat zones, workers in remote areas, hikers and mountain climbers are an emerging market for providers of two-way tracking devices.
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson	New Generation of Commercial Satellites to Benefit Military Commercial satellite communications providers are in the process of launching a new generation of high-capacity spacecraft that will be a boon for their military customers.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Globalstar Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of satellite communications specialist Globalstar jumped more than 10% in intraday trading on higher-than-average volume.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	Promise of `Revolution' in Satellite Communications Faces Challenges Recently, the Air Force launched the first of five Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft, marking the first in a series of four constellations that will revolutionize the military's ability to communicate with forces on the ground.
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
National Defense March 2014 James Mazzei	Why Military Satellites Matter At issue is the next generation of the Navy's Mobile User Objective System, a narrowband tactical satellite communications system that is designed to improve secure voice, video and data services communications for U.S. forces on the move.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Rules Under Fire for Eroding U.S. Space Industry Restrictions on exports of U.S. space technology have spurred a global demand for products made outside the United States.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Tactical Satellite Communications Networks With flexible operational services and compact ground terminals, Satellite Communications (SATCOM) services offer attractive solutions for military users in theater and on global links.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Vendor Plans to Launch Commercial Laser Satellite System Two of the U.S. military's long-standing communications problems could be solved if a new company manages to get its proposed laser-based satellite system off the ground.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Will Broaden Access To Satellite Communications Before the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division heads back to Iraq, its units are expected to receive upgraded satellite communications and new vehicles outfitted with the command-and-control computers and radios.
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Demand for Military Satellites Shows No Sign of Slowing Down The use of space systems in military operations has surged during the past decade and this growth shows no signs of slowing down, according to an industry study.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 David Schneider	Iridium Will Host Science Payloads New satellites will give space and wattage for Earth-sensing experiments.
National Defense June 2006 Sandra Erwin	Commanders' Wish List Makes for Wishful Thinking Since the early days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of the Pentagon's equipment buys have fulfilled critical battlefield needs. But the Pentagon has failed to deliver in some areas, especially in those involving information technologies.
Popular Mechanics February 2009 Roxana Tiron	As Satellite Program Fails, New Plans Arise to Take its Place The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
Inc. September 1, 2009 Cheney et al.	Grabbing a Piece of the Defense-Spending Pie A look at seven Inc. 500 companies that sell technology and services to the Pentagon
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Current Military Operations May Slow SATCOM Development Trends within the U.S. Department of Defense may slow development funding for next-generation satellite communications such as WIN-T, yet the promised technologies of these programs, such as Internet Protocol systems, continue to demonstrate successfully.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2005 Rich Duprey	Wireless Goes Sky-High Will "stratellites" be the next big thing or the next big bust? This is a highly speculative wireless broadband idea from a highly speculative, penny-stock company.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger.
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
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National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Game-Changing Laser Communications Ready For Fielding, Vendors Say Sending data with lasers, rather than radio frequencies, has the potential to revolutionize the way the military communicates, proponents of the technology have said.
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille	Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Why the Mightiest Military Can't Get Enough Trucks The political circus that has surrounded the procurement of mine-resistant armored vehicles for troops in Iraq comes as no surprise.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	'Wi-Fi in the Sky' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.
National Defense March 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	The Budget Realities We Must Face As Congress deliberates at length on the fine points of the Bush administration's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Defense Department, it may be an appropriate time to take a broader look at the potential implications of the Pentagon's spending plan.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Scientists Pursue Flexible, Adaptable Space Systems In the future, "virtual satellites" circling the globe will peer down on enemy forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Device Links iPhone Into Satellite System A United Arab Emirates-based satellite company is pitching a device to the U.S. military that can transform an iPhone 4 into a satellite phone.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman	China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.
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