Dec 22, 2015, p. 6
In its recent report, “Winning the Airwaves, Regaining America’s Dominance in the Electromagnetic Spectrum,” the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) notes that “20 years ago, American ships, aircraft, and other major weapon systems communicated with one another through voice transmissions or by sending contact reports through low-bandwidth datalinks. Today, individual military platforms can track multiple contacts across wide swaths of the EMS (electromagnetic spectrum) while continuously sharing data with distant platforms and command centers through high-bandwidth satellite communications and Internet protocol-based radio networks.” CSBA also points out, “The EMS is becoming increasingly congested as new mobile communication and sensing technologies become commercially available. The growing need for commercial bandwidth is encroaching on areas of the EMS used by the military.”
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