B******, what stupid b******. Here you go, read, December 2, 2019: Global Lightning is the designation for defense experiments at the Air Force Base Research Laboratories (AFRL) through the Commercial Space Internet Program (DEUCSI). And this is one of the main pillars of Air Force acquisition czar Will Ropers "digital transformation" efforts and Chief of Staff General David Goldfines' ambitions for multi-disciplinary activity. Activating MDO will require the transfer of vast amounts of data between sensors on the ground, in the air, at sea, in space, and in cyberspace—the five domains of warfare—all over the world to shooters, which in the Air Force's case, means planes, UAVs, missiles, and possibly computers loaded with malware bullets. Thus, harnessing space-based Internet capabilities could be a killer application for MDO success. "We have a very rich program called Global Lightning that brings commercial communications to existing platforms," ​​Roper told reporters last Tuesday after a presentation at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS. "It's desperately needed." The program, Roper explained, is closely related to the development of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). ABMS is envisioned by the Air Force as the engine not only for the MDO command and control network, but also for the four services' MDO programs known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) designed to link all DoD sensors to all service shooters. ‼ ‼ Under Global Lightning, AFRL began a series of experiments to adapt terminal service aircraft to link to commercial space-based Internet satellites and ground stations. These experiments began in December 2018 with the attachment of two demonstration versions of SpaceX's Starlink satellites to a C-12J transport aircraft. Right now, Spardis said, AFRL is using the Starlink constellation of 60 satellites that were launched into low Earth orbit (LEO) in May and are "testing with an Ag-130 from the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

B******, what stupid b******. Here you go, read, December 2, 2019: Global Lightning is the designation for defense experiments at the Air Force Base Research Laboratories (AFRL) through the Commercial Space Internet Program (DEUCSI). And this is one of the main pillars of Air Force acquisition czar Will Ropers "digital transformation" efforts and Chief of Staff General David Goldfines' ambitions for multi-disciplinary activity. Activating MDO will require the transfer of vast amounts of data between sensors on the ground, in the air, at sea, in space, and in cyberspace—the five domains of warfare—all over the world to shooters, which in the Air Force's case, means planes, UAVs, missiles, and possibly computers loaded with malware bullets. Thus, harnessing space-based Internet capabilities could be a killer application for MDO success. "We have a very rich program called Global Lightning that brings commercial communications to existing platforms," ​​Roper told reporters last Tuesday after a presentation at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS. "It's desperately needed." The program, Roper explained, is closely related to the development of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). ABMS is envisioned by the Air Force as the engine not only for the MDO command and control network, but also for the four services' MDO programs known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) designed to link all DoD sensors to all service shooters. ‼ ‼ Under Global Lightning, AFRL began a series of experiments to adapt terminal service aircraft to link to commercial space-based Internet satellites and ground stations. These experiments began in December 2018 with the attachment of two demonstration versions of SpaceX's Starlink satellites to a C-12J transport aircraft. Right now, Spardis said, AFRL is using the Starlink constellation of 60 satellites that were launched into low Earth orbit (LEO) in May and are "testing with an Ag-130 from the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).