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Government auditors have recently finished a review of the Pentagon's nuclear-war-fighting communications satellites and--whoops!--it seems that they underperform. A primary component of the costly, top-secret Milstar satellites is the Military Commanders' Voice Conference Network. That's mil-speak for telephone links between the President and his senior military commanders...
That's grim news, given the $17 billion U.S. taxpayers are spending on the Milstar satellite system. Maybe the Pentagon should consider using Iridium satphones instead. They're only $3,000 each...
Government auditors have recently finished a review of the Pentagon's nuclear-war-fighting communications satellites and -- whoops! -- it seems that they underperform. A primary component of the costly, top-secret Milstar satellites is the Military Commanders' Voice Conference Network. That's mil-speak for telephone links between the President and his senior military commanders...
...That's grim news, given the $17 billion U.S. taxpayers are spending on the Milstar satellite system. Maybe the Pentagon should consider using Iridium satphones instead. They're only $3,000 each...
Systems waiting to go into orbit include the first of the new Milstar communications satellites, designed to maintain military communications in a nuclear war; a Defense Support Program heat-sensing satellite to give warning of hostile missile launches; and a Lacrosse satellite with a special radar system to provide detailed pictures of the ground even through clouds and at night. One of the two Lacrosses currently in orbit has been up for more than four years and needs to be replaced. "Any lengthy delay in getting the Titan IV operational could be critical to the U.S. surveillance capability," said Richelson...