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title: "Satellite-Enabled Situational Awareness in a Contested Environment"
date: "2025-05-24T02:00:00+00:00"
url: "https://hiskysat.com/solutions/situational-awareness/"
description: "Beyond-line-of-sight situational awareness for dismounted operators, using private Ka-band SATCOM and Edge AI."
---

# Satellite-Enabled Situational Awareness in a Contested Environment

ForceLITE · Dismounted Forces / SOF

Beyond-line-of-sight situational awareness for dismounted operators, using private Ka-band SATCOM and Edge AI.

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![Dismounted operator using a wrist-mounted device](https://hiskysat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/situational-awareness.webp)

## The challenge

Dismounted operators in contested environments require secure messaging, position reporting, emergency alerting and continuous situational awareness while minimizing RF exposure, battery consumption and carried weight.

- Loss of communications beyond radio line of sight.
- Limited visibility of personnel location and operational status.
- Need to reduce RF signature in contested environments.
- Strict size, weight and power constraints.
- High bandwidth consumption for continuous data exchange.

## The HiSKY solution

HiSKY’s compact body-worn Ka-band node connects individual operators over a private GEO satellite network. Embedded Edge AI processes information locally and prioritizes the data transmitted. The solution supports messaging, position reporting, alerts and situational awareness while managing bandwidth and battery use.

- Compact, body-worn satellite connectivity.
- Private GEO network for communications beyond terrestrial coverage.
- Local Edge AI processing and data prioritization.
- Messaging, position reporting and emergency alerts in one integrated solution.

## What the solution enables

### Connectivity

Persistent BLOS SATCOM instead of RF line-of-sight dependence.

### Awareness

Continuous operational awareness instead of intermittent updates.

### Bandwidth

AI-filtered mission data instead of raw continuous transmission.

### Operator burden

One integrated body-worn solution.

## System at a glance

- **Terminal**Body-Worn Ka Terminal with embedded Edge AI
- **Applications**Messaging, position reporting, alerts and situational awareness
- **Integration**Android end-user devices, radios, sensors and headsets
- **Management**HiSKY GEO network and Space Control (NMS)

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## Plan the deployment.

[Contact us](https://hiskysat.com/contact/) [Download use case PDF](https://hiskysat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HiSKY-Use-Case-Situational-Awareness-Body-Worn-Terminal.pdf)