The Air Force has opted against purchasing a fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite -- a decision based on input from the military's combatant commanders, two Pentagon officials said today. "The combatant commanders want to go to TSAT," a Defense Department official said during a media roundtable today. "They don't want AEHF to continue." He was referring to the military's next-generation communications satellite program, the multimillion-dollar Transformational Satellite initiative. Congress recently directed Air Force officials to examine whether it would...
