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Intelsat General (IGC) has been providing reliable communications-on-the-move (COTM) via satellite to remotely piloted aircraft since the early 2000s. Airborne Satellite COTM is used to address two primary applications for manned and unmanned aircraft: en-route communications for senior leadership and airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) missions.
Over the last decade, Intelsat General has designed several

Diminishing military budgets and resources, as well as vast areas of the Pacific Ocean with minimal satellite coverage, are creating an ever-expanding need for bandwidth for the U.S. military.
According to a recent Breaking Defense article, Intelsat General hopes to play a significant role in supplying the military with the bandwidth it needs to be mission-effective

The U.S. government leases a significant amount of commercial satellite bandwidth to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) missions over the hotspots of the world. These missions, using both manned and unmanned aircraft, depend upon high-capacity satellite bandwidth to transmit sensor data including full-motion video from the aircraft back to distant command bases.
Recent testing

From ongoing penetrations by “hacktivists” to state-sponsored attacks, cyber threats against satellite communications networks are proliferating at an alarming rate.  The constantly shifting arena is putting extra accountability on commercial providers, who are not immune from the same threats the government faces.
This ongoing challenge reinforces the need for advanced security technologies to stay one step

By Vinit Duggal, Director and Chief Information Security Officer, Intelsat
Reposted from the Intelsat Corporation blog.
Today’s threat landscape is persistent and pervasive. The volume of attacks and level of sophistication are only increasing.  The recent state sponsored attacks and data breaches at major global organizations have raised the alert level on cybersecurity to unprecedented

Commercial satellite capacity has proven its reliability over the last decade of U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Southwest Asia and Africa, and is increasingly being considered as a centerpiece of the Pentagon’s future strategy. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is now considering the best approach for the future to ensure that it

SatCom Frontier recently spoke with David Bruner, Vice President of global communications services at Panasonic Avionics Corporation. David talks below about Panasonic’s move into providing in-flight broadband connectivity, and the ongoing Ku- vs. Ka-band HTS debate.
Please give some background on your business division inside Panasonic.
We’ve been in the in-flight entertainment market for more than

The American military enjoys a large C4/ISR superiority over any other force in the world today. This superiority is fueled by satellite communications (SATCOM) bandwidth. Due to the imperative of preserving this vital advantage and the natural course of technological advancements, the need for SATCOM bandwidth is projected to keep increasing for at least a

The U.S. Government makes extensive use of satellite communications (SATCOM).  Military and commercial SATCOM infrastructure can provide data, video, and voice connectivity between any two locations on the earth or in the air.  And it can do so much more quickly than other wired and wireless alternatives.  Government SATCOM, however, has an impending security challenge.
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