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It's the same old song. The Defense Department launches multimillion dollar satellites but doesn't get much use out of them for the first few years because no one has synchronized the development of the terminals needed to connect to them. The Navy originally developed the narrowband Mobile User Objective System to provide secure, cell-phone-like connectivity to warfighters on the ground. "The full constellation of MUOS satellites has been on orbit for over four years, but DoD has not been able to use the system's advanced capabilities - such as its 10-fold increase in communications capacity," the report stated.