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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Military Developers Focus on Supporting Efficient Critical Operations
 There are speculative rumors floating throughout the mass media that tightened military budgets will scale down satellite’s role in today’s battle theatres, but make no mistake — military satellite communication demands continue to increase and the Pentagon’s short- and long-term plans include a greater reliance on commercial connectivity, bandwidth and network management. The result is an increased workload for developers focused on providing the military with higher data speeds and easy-to-use mobile satellite solutions.
This Via Satellite Military Satcom Extra e-letter is an exciting opportunity for me to present the efforts of developers in solving technological and logistic problems that have hounded the military for years. Over the next few months, engineers at U.S. satellite companies will be rolling out solutions that should excite military end-users in the field, as their needs are becoming the driving force of products ranging from end-to-end network management to interference geolocation. Putting the market analysis aside for a moment, we hope this information will provide tech-savvy insight on the new tools being developed for the warfighter.
-Jeffrey Hill
News Editor, Satellite TODAY
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