U.S Army CIO G6 Space and Airborne Branch Senior Milsatcom Systems Analyst Edward Aymar predicted that Pentagon will not be acquiring additional satellite constellations order until 2025 and thought that the agency will continue to obtain new terminals and related technology instead.
During the Satellite 2013 conference, Aymar said at the military satcom panel that they have Wideband Global Satcom (WGS), Advanced-Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) that will most likely be on orbit until 2025 or even beyond that. He added, “We know we don’t have enough capacity, and our opportunities to really achieve advances and efficiencies will be whatever we can do with the satellite terminals on the ground and on our satellite control systems.”
Furthermore, the Department of Defense does not need to establish a new network each time it arrives in a new area of operations. Aymar noted, “This practice requires satellite communications because building up fiber-optics takes time. The Army does plan to field about 4,000 new WIN-T terminals for communications on the move. However, most of our current milsatcom fleets are designed to service fixed architectures.”
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