Basement-built jammers: new data defines the risk
The October announcement by Raytheon that it had won a Department of Defense contract–potentially worth $25 million–to develop next-generation anti-jamming

The October announcement by Raytheon that it had won a Department of Defense contract–potentially worth $25 million–to develop next-generation anti-jamming systems for GPS underlines security specialists’ concern that GPS is now “an attractive target” for terrorists. But less well appreciated is the fact that non-military satellite facilities, such as the commercial communications satellite networks upon which international operators and segments of the U.S. civil and military depend, are also potential targets.

During Operation Desert Storm  in 1991, some 45 percent of the military’s communications traffic was via commercial satellites, according to an August 2 report by the General Accounting Office (GAO). Furthermore, according to the same report, all of the U.S. military’s satellite communication during operations in Somalia in 1993 was via Russian satellites.