A consortium of satellite communications providers is concerned that the House Appropriations Committee's proposed $140 million cut to the Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite program could mean significant delays to an effort to demonstrate protected communications capabilities. The service's fiscal year 2016 budget request included a proposal to use $140 million in Space Modernization Initiative funds to support the AEHF program and an effort to demonstrate a protected tactical waveform -- a capability that would have implications for...
