Tag: space_data_network_backbone

Pentagon Taps Viasat for $450 Million Golden Dome Data Relay Operations Center

9 Nov 2026 1:03 a.m.

Space Force satellites still cannot talk to each other, a gap likely to need a roughly $1 billion fix, as Congress weighs defense funding and a Hegseth impeachment.

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