{"id":211155,"date":"2025-04-11T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/true-commercial-alternatives-for-strategic-communications-and-pnt-dont-exist-yet"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:28:14","slug":"true-commercial-alternatives-for-strategic-communications-and-pnt-dont-exist-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/true-commercial-alternatives-for-strategic-communications-and-pnt-dont-exist-yet","title":{"rendered":"True commercial alternatives for strategic communications and PNT don\u2019t exist \u2014 yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/true-commercial-alternatives-for-strategic-communications-and-pnt-dont-exist-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may not exist.<\/p>\n<p>That was one takeaway from an April 8 press briefing with Space Systems Command (SSC) officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to leverage more and more commercial wherever possible,\u201d said Charlotte Gerhart, deputy director of SSC\u2019s Military Communications and Positioning, Navigation &amp; Timing Directorate. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean everything that commercial has fits every single need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Military space leaders continue looking for ways to inject commercial technologies into their architectures. For strategic communications and positioning, navigation and timing, though, true commercial alternatives may not exist. That was one takeaway from an April 8 press briefing with Space Systems Command (SSC) officials. \u201cWe will continue to leverage more and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}