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Technology In The Military Essay

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In today’s society, it has become almost impossible to miss any single piece of information thanks to the continued developments of technology. Just as advancements in technology have shaped American society, the advancements made in the past decade have helped to shape the military’s ability to communicate in more efficient ways. As the U.S. Military has moved from out dated technology, such as the Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) model and the Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS) satellite communication constellation, to the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) and the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) System, the ability to pass vast amounts of information in real-time is not just a reality, but a way of life.
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With MSE not fulfilling the mission requirement anymore, a 2004 project was conceived and became known as WIN-T. The development and implementation of the WIN-T communication technology was in sharp contrast to the timeline that followed MSE’s conception. WIN-T’s equipment implementation started the same year it had been proposed; and final implementation of the initial increment’s equipment to all required units was in 2012, showing a substantially compressed timeline as compared to MSE. (U.S. Army, Nov …show more content…

These generation three satellites were a major upgrade from their prior generation as they were placed in to a geosynchronous, or stationary, orbit around Earth. Each of the DSCS generation three satellites provided approximately 405 Megahertz (MHz) of bandwidth for long satellite communications. (Encyclopedia Astronautica, n.d.) However, just as MSE had become outdated, so did the DSCS generation three satellites. Just as ground based technology had changed, the ability to move data from point A to point B over a substantial distance had to change,

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