Taking Advantage of Opportunities for Commercial Satellite Communications Services

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) relies upon the United States commercial satellite private sector to provide about 40% of its satellite communication services at a cost of roughly $640 million per year. These commercial satellite service providers often approach DoD with business propositions that include opportunities for attractive deals in terms of time, money, and capability. Some of these propositions would require DoD to contractually commit to satellite services when available, sometimes on an annual basis, or other times over a multi-year period that would require up front dollars for the purchase agreement. On many occasions, DoD is unable to take advantage of these offers due to either existing processes (i.e. the Federal Acquisition Regulations, Joint Capabilities Integration Development System, and Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution) or statutory restrictions, many of which are beyond DoD s control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA581065

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Business Board

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bandwidth
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Geography
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Satellite Communications
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites