The Defense Department is finalizing an implementation plan for the Space Force's new Enterprise Satellite Communications Management and Control infrastructure aimed at improving the way the department manages and integrates military and commercial SATCOM services. Mike Dean, DOD’s SATCOM chief, said this week during the Satellite 2021 conference that the department “is getting ready to sign” the document and shift from designing an architecture allowing DOD to better take advantage of commercial capabilities to executing it. “What that’s going to...