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Connectivity Under Fire: The Critical Need for Satcom Terminal Survivability
In contested and denied environments, beyond-line-of-sight connectivity is often the only remaining link for command and control, mission execution, and safety-of-life communications. For U.S. military platforms operating at the tactical edge, satcom terminals have evolved from utility equipment into high-value targets. Adversaries actively seek to disrupt them through electronic attacks, cyber intrusions, electromagnetic weapons, and physical kinetic threats. When those terminals fail, missions fail.

Despite this, satcom survivability is often still framed as a matter of "uptime" or availability under nominal conditions. In the modern battlespace, survivability is far more demanding. A terminal must continue performing its required functions during…[continued]