{"id":217952,"date":"2025-07-15T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/space-force-milnet-constellation-emerges-as-top-unfunded-priority"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:16:53","slug":"space-force-milnet-constellation-emerges-as-top-unfunded-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/space-force-milnet-constellation-emerges-as-top-unfunded-priority","title":{"rendered":"Space Force MILNET constellation emerges as top \u2018unfunded priority\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-milnet-constellation-emerges-as-top-unfunded-priority.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force estimates it would need more than $4 billion to fund a proliferated low Earth orbit constellation known as MILNET that would provide global communications services, making it the largest item in the service\u2019s fiscal year 2026 \u201cunfunded priorities list\u201d submitted to Congress last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force estimates it would need more than $4 billion to fund a proliferated low Earth orbit constellation known as MILNET that would provide global communications services, making it the largest item in the service\u2019s fiscal year 2026 \u201cunfunded priorities list\u201d submitted to Congress last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217952","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}