Sat Service Providers See Opportunity in Tight Budgets

摘要

Satellite service providers said they believe the across-the-board budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies this year under sequestration are just the beginning of a prolonged federal spending downturn that ultimately could benefit those firms that are the most efficient and cost effective in providing bandwidth to the military."It's not the end of the drawdown, but the beginning," Lyle Bien, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and satellite communications consultant, said March 20 during a panel discussion at the Satellite 2013 conference.