Lawmakers Urge the Pentagon To Accelerate MUOS Terminals

摘要

A House Armed Services Committee panel is urging the U.S. Defense Department to take unspecified steps to accelerate the use of long-delayed terminals for the Navy's next-generation mobile satellite communications system. The terminals for the Navy's four-satellite Mobile User Objective System are 21 months behind schedule. The first MUOS satellite launched in February 2012 and a second launched in July 2013. Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Sunnyvale, California, the MUOS constellation is designed to provide smartphone-like communications to mobile forces at rates 10 times faster than the legacy system.