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New SATCOM Terminals Will Improve Navy’s Ability To Perform Missions, Quality of Life

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Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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In the coming year, the Navy is planning to outfit its surface fleet with the latest in commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals to increase the amount of data transferred to ships at sea, according to a service official. The Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP), run out of the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), will enable the Navy to put shipboard terminals aboard multiple ships to access commercial satellite services that include bandwidth in the…

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