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International AEHF Partners Working Toward Terminal Development Testing, Air Force Says

Gally Articola

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

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The United States anticipates that its international Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite constellation partners--Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom--will join it in performing terminal development testing in the next several months, according to a key Air Force official. Air Force Chief of Protected Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Division and AEHF Program Manager Col. Rod Miller told reporters on Sept. 10 during a conference call all three nations have their own terminal development programs and have been deploying their capabilities.…

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