Air Force leadership stressed that the global race to develop 5G networks will be a crucial part of developing the military’s newest sister service branch dedicated to space.
“We need to up our game in 5G,” Will Roper, the Air Force’s acquisition head, explained Friday at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
“As more autonomy moves to the edge of the internet of things, it’s going to have to be supported by more bandwidth,” he said, adding that space-based communications will play a key role in connecting 5G devices. “It would be a shame that if something that is going to control most of the data moving from machine to machine commercializes first overseas,” Roper added.
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