It’s time to change the way the military purchases commercial satellite services. Our current method of procuring these services is too expensive, lacks strategic foresight, puts our troops at risk and disadvantages the U.S. industrial base. The Department of Defense (DoD) relies on commercial satellite services to meet the needs of the warfighter, most prominently in the area of communications. Helpfully, there is a robust commercial market for satellite communications, driven in part by high-definition-television-loving people around the globe. The military greatly benefits from leveraging this competitive and innovative market to meet certain warfighter communication needs, rather than wholly relying on government solutions.

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