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At the end of 2018, division chief Clare Grason and her entire satellite communications team at the Defense Information Systems Agency moved over to work in the same capacity under Gen. John (“Jay”) Raymond at the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). As she said of the transfer in November at the Global MilSatCom conference in London, “We’re ready to start a new chapter.”
The change has been a long time coming. We industry veterans here at Intelsat General and our colleagues at other commercial satellite providers have been pushing for reform for the past decade. This move is not simply a shuffling of the deck chairs. Rather, it is an important step toward a future wideband SATCOM architecture that defines a clear role for COMSATCOM.
Several Air Force leaders, including Gen. John Hyten and Gen. Jay Raymond, have long been advocates for the USG solidifying the COMSATCOM role in the DoD space mission and taking full advantage of commercial capability. Gen. Raymond, in particular, was instrumental in supporting the decision to shift commercial satellite services procurement from DISA to the Air Force, which is also responsible for the nation’s military satellite constellations. As Grason said at Global MilSatCom, she now wants “to elevate commercial satcom to where it needs to be, as vital infrastructure.”
Read more: A ‘New Chapter’ in Government Procurement of Satellite Solutions
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