Knight Sky to Demonstrate Progress on Pilot 2 Program at MILCOM 2018

FREDERICK, Md. - Oct. 26, 2018 - PRLog -- Knight Sky, LLC announced today that they will be performing a live demonstration of their progress on the US Air Force Space and Missile System Center (SMC) Pilot 2 Program at MILCOM 2018 being held at the LAX Marriott, Los Angeles. The Pilot program seeks to mature a Flexible Modem Interface (FMI) concept through an Open System Architecture (OSA) approach and standards definition development.

The program's goal is to enhance flexibility, affordability, and resiliency of the Department of Defense (DOD) SATCOM enterprise, it will demonstrate an Order of Magnitude improvement in SATCOM capabilities through expanded usage of commercial systems and technologies. Knight Sky has been able to demonstrate that the FMI concept must encompass all elements of deployed satellite terminals. Knight Sky will demonstrate how deployed SATCOM terminals can roam between multiple service provider networks as a means to achieve load balancing, rapid mission response and threat mitigation.

Knight Sky was awarded the USAF SMC Pilot Program Phase 2 on February 1, 2018 through the C5 Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace.

Demonstrations will take place during conference hours on Monday, October 29, Tuesday, October 30, and Wednesday, October 31st 2018, with multiple demonstrations being conducted each day.

About Knight Sky, LLC

Knight Sky, LLC is a leading provider of end-to-end managed satellite network products and services for the DoD, Federal government agencies and commercial enterprises.  Founded in 2003, Knight Sky is dedicated to supporting the United States government agencies with secure, reliable, and scalable satellite and wireless communications services from our headquarters in Frederick, Maryland. Knight Sky operates SkyMAX a global managed satellite network services with a 24x7x365 Network Operations Center and Help Desk. www.knight-sky.com