This was actually a decrease of $28.4 million, to $144 million, so the $144 million that we are requesting today will be spent on the following items: salaries and allowances, $36.6 million; real-life support, so food and supplies and accommodations, $60 million; vehicle and equipment—much of the vehicle support there is rented SUVs, vehicle maintenance, supplies; communications equipment, so computers and satellite communication, accounts for $4 million; the movement, so the in-and-out rotation of personnel, theatre visits, and relief; pre-deployment training accounts for $7 million of that amount; and personnel support, which is ...[+++]$15 million, for the morale, welfare, local engagement, home leave travel, etc.

7,25 to 7,75 GHz (Fixed Satellite Service) and 7,45 to 7,55 GHz (Meteorological Satellite) protection: – 51,3 – 20*log(10[km]/x[km])(dBm/MHz) for heights above ground above 1 000 m, where x is the aircraft height above ground in kilometres, – 71,3 dBm/MHz for heights above ground of 1 000 m and below,

And I believe they are developing unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, which could also provide that visual confirmation of the kind of information that ground or satellite assets might come across.

There are other costs such as ground support equipment and satellite communication systems that go in each aircraft which are equivalent to what already exists in current aircraft.

- Satellite based personal communications networks and services; handheld personal satellite communications, similar in size to the current generation of terrestrial mobile communications and foreseen to come into operation in a number of years, will require advance licensing to assure that they can operate no matter where the user takes the device.

Satellite personal communications services will provide data and/or voice(and in the future also video) services into a fixed or protable personal terminal, approximately the size of today's terrestrial cellular phones, by means of new types of the satellite systems such as Low Earth Orbit(LEO) constellation of some 40-70 satellites overflying the surface of the earth at around 1000 km. These systems will enable global interconnectivity and mobility via the use of personal communications equipment as a complement to world-wide mobile terrestrial networks (in particular GSM).