Host Nation Compliance in the European Theater

摘要

Two decades ago, I managed a project at a U.S. Navy satellite communications station in Italy. Following the construction of two terminals, I was tasked to obtain transmission licenses from the Ministry of Communications. Because these were for military use, the request was passed to the Ministry of Defense. To our surprise, the Italian Ministry of Defense had no knowledge of the C-band and Ku-band terminals we had constructed. Worse yet, they had no record of the satellite communication stations existence, even though it had been in operation since the 1950s.