Air Force to accelerate deployment of anti-jam satellite communications equipment
by Sandra Erwin — December 26, 2018
The Air Force is developing software and ground equipment to boost the protection of the Wideband Global satcom system. First in line for the upgrade are naval carrier strike groups. The Navy will get the new technology in 2022, about 18 months sooner than previously planned.
WASHINGTON — The Air Force is cyber hardening military satellite communications equipment amid worries that foreign hackers could infiltrate U.S. networks.
“Adversaries are getting better and more able to penetrate our unclassified or barely protected systems,†said Col. Tim Mckenzie chief of the advanced development division for military satellite communications at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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