{"id":83611,"date":"2012-01-31T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/analyst-predicts-satellite-will-fare-well-against-u-s-military-budget-cuts\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:22:30","slug":"analyst-predicts-satellite-will-fare-well-against-u-s-military-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/analyst-predicts-satellite-will-fare-well-against-u-s-military-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Predicts Satellite Will Fare Well Against U.S. Military Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">[01-31-12] The Pentagon\u2019s plan to reduce military spending by $487 billion over the next decade was met with serious concern in the space sector after it was published Jan. 27 as part of the military\u2019s 2013 full-year budget. Analysts, however,<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;While total U.S. defense spending is expected decline 22 percent from its peak in 2010, analysts predicted that military satellite and space spending would fare much better than the budget as a whole.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Raymond James <\/strong>Analyst Chris Quilty said he has confidence in this prediction, given the fact that the United States\u2019 dominance of space is expected to be a key discriminator on future battlefields.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe Pentagon emphasizes in the report that space systems are \u2018critical to our surveillance, communications, positioning, and networking capabilities,\u2019 and that funding will be \u2018protected\u2019 for needed upgrades to the GPS, SBIRS, and AEHF programs,\u201d Quilty told <em>Satellite TODAY Insider<\/em>. \u201cAside from the cancellation of the Global Hawk UAV program, which has experienced severe cost overruns, the Pentagon actually intends to increase spending on UAVs to support a minimum of 65 combat air patrols.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;UAVs represent a major source of satellite communications demand from the government sector. A a single Global Hawk aircraft consumes 500 Mbps, which is five times the total bandwidth used by the U.S. military during the first Gulf War.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;While the defense budget does not spell out exactly which programs will receive additional spending, Quilty suspects that certain electronic warfare and communications satellite programs are likely to benefit.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cU.S. Special Operations forces are amongst the heaviest consumers of satellite communications, including satellite phones via Iridium and flyaway terminals,\u201d Quilty said. \u201cWhile the Pentagon inexplicably states that it intends to make substantial reductions in commercial satellite imagery, the document cryptically indicates that the military intends to substantially increase coverage beyond the current capability.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The policy change seems to represent a major rebuke to DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, which were awarded a combined $7.3 billion, 10-year contract to supply imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in August 2010.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cBoth stocks have been cut roughly in half over the past year, reflecting what we believe is an expectation that EnhancedView program will be slashed by 20 percent to 30 percent,\u201d said Quilty. \u201cWhile such an outcome is possible, we believe the eventual impact to both companies could be less than anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-31-12] The Pentagon\u2019s plan to reduce military spending by $487 billion over the next decade was met with serious concern in the space sector after it was published Jan. 27 as part of the military\u2019s 2013 full-year budget. Analysts, however, &nbsp; &nbsp;While total U.S. defense spending is expected decline 22 percent from its peak in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}