MUOS constellation schedule breached over operational deficiencies

By Justin Katz / August 21, 2017 at 12:56 PM
The Navy postponed declaring full operational capability for the Mobile User Objective System, causing a schedule breach in the program's baseline, according to a Selected Acquisition Report obtained by Inside the Navy. "MUOS is not operationally effective in providing reliable worldwide Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communications to tactical users," according to the office of the director, operational test and evaluation's fiscal year 2016 annual report. MUOS is the Defense Department's latest narrowband military satellite communications system and is...

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