Dominant Logistics
Global Language Translation
In recent years, a number of commercial attempts
have been made to provide global satellite phone coverage.
These attempts have mostly failed miserably with the companies going bankrupt. This presents a unique opportunity to address a
glaring military need at a bargain price for the military.
This need is the tremendous lack of translators available to troops abroad.
By buying up the satellite constellations that are
already in place, the military could set up a single location with a limited number of
translators to cover the languages required. Troops
abroad would use a pair of phones with a set of cards to assist in determining the
language of the person that needs to be translated. The
soldier would call the translation service with the number from the card that the
foreigner recognizes and this will tell the translation service which translator is
needed.
The translator then would call the other phone and
the foreigner would use that phone. Soldier
speaks into one phone; translated language comes out the other. This same system could be used for broadcasting
messages in another language by attaching the earpiece to a bullhorn.
As new hotspots erupt, temporary translation
service sites could even be established abroad. Hire
some locals that can translate and let them work at the station abroad while calls
requiring that dialect would be rerouted to the temporary site.
This same system could supplement existing communications networks giving our forces a more diverse communications capability overall. Coverage issues that exist with current satellite phone systems can be addressed by adding compatible circuitry to the automatic communications relays used in E-2 and other systems.