USAF predicts application for hosted payloads despite lack of momentum

By Courtney Albon / May 12, 2016 at 5:15 PM
As the Air Force considers how, and whether, commercially hosted payloads might make its future satellite architectures more resilient, the service is looking to industry to develop a key enabling technology meant to help protect sensitive information contained in some military payloads. The Air Force in early 2015 released a request for information signaling it was moving ahead with an effort to develop a Hosted Payload Interface Unit that would standardize the way a government payload connects with a commercial...

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