Military Communications Market – its Key Players & Opportunities

The military communications market was valued at USD 30.00 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach USD 37.67 billion by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6% during 2018-2023, as per a report by MarketsandMarkets.

Companies such as General Dynamics (US), Lockheed Martin (US), Northrop Grumman (US), BAE Systems (UK), and Raytheon (US) offer military communication solutions. These players have adopted various growth strategies, such as expansions, agreements, partnerships, acquisitions, new product launches, and product enhancements, to strengthen their position in the military communications market. Agreements, collaborations & partnerships was the key strategy adopted by the players in the military communications market between February 2016 and July 2018.

General Dynamics provides various military communications solutions, such as SATCOM base station, digital modular radio (DMR), and PTSH-104 amplified audio speaker. It has adopted product enhancement as one of its key growth strategies to offer innovative and upgraded products. In October 2017, General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, introduced the new Fortress Wireless Gateway, which allows users to connect quickly and securely to a wireless network to enhance and extend wireless network coverage. The company is also focused on inorganic strategies, such as agreements, to become an exclusive military communications provider. In June 2017, General Dynamics Mission Systems signed an agreement with Carroll Communications, a certified, service-disabled small business that provides key technologies to defense acquisition programs from audio/visual manufacturers, antenna manufacturers, and LTE carrier services.

Why Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETS) is an unravelling opportunity?

In emergency situations, MANETS are preferred as they are wireless networks and can be easily deployed. Compared to GPS, MANETS support built-in geographic location using an extremely accurate form of triangulation, which enables soldiers in a military operation to triangulate the positions of vehicles or devices. MANETS primarily focus on low energy consumption within the network. Devices such as SDRs can reduce the energy consumption within an ad-hoc network as less energy is consumed at the transmitter and receiver nodes. MANETS are being deployed on a large scale due to the increasing use of UAS for both surveillance and military war operations that generate a massive amount of data which needs to be transferred between command centers and tactical communication networks. There is a huge opportunity for MANETS to proliferate rapidly in the military communications market.

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