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While terrestrial communication capabilities continue to expand, even more ambitious frontiers remain to be explored towards realizing the vision of connecting humans, machines, and the world's information across land, air, space, and sea. Indeed, a great many transformative applications can be made possible by extending wireless network capabilities now commonplace in terrestrial systems to the oceans, skies, and cosmos. The wealth of information gathered can be made available in real-time and connectivity of people and devices can be enabled anytime, anywhere. However, legacy technologies and systems are not able to adequately address the challenges related to the unique characteristics of a wireless channel in these environments and the dynamic nature of its conditions. At the same time, increased system complexity makes effective control and decision making by a human operator almost impossible. 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Theoretical developments for airborne communications are evaluated through extensive simulation studies and field testing of a hybrid ground-air cognitive radio network. Adaptive techniques to overcome the challenges of underwater acoustic communications are proposed and validated through simulation. Promising directions for agile and efficient space communications are investigated. 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