Congress acknowledges the need for new acquisition approaches for DoD’s procurement of critical satellite communications capability. In the fiscal 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers encouraged new acquisition models that both reduce cost for this capability and help to reduce the risk of not having sufficient commercial satellite communications where and when the military needs it.

So why is Congress worried about DoD’s acquisition of commercial satellite communications, or COMSATCOM?

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