U.S. Army soldiers set up satellite nodes at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Credit: U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

With the rapid integration of emerging technologies, today’s defense landscape is more interconnected and complex than ever before. This reality places stress on traditional infrastructures that often fall short in providing the level of performance and resilience that emerging capabilities, such as multi-orbit, multi-network systems can. This shortfall needs urgent attention. 

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Tom Jackson is executive vice president at Kymeta.