USTRANSCOM

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USTRANSCOM
Commercial SATCOM Workshop 5 Dec 06
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Agenda

• USTRANSCOM Mission
• Systems Employed
• Applications
• Challenges
• Concerns
• Recommendations

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Mission

• USTRANSCOM provides the synchronized
  transportation, distribution, and sustainment
  which makes possible projecting and maintaining
  national power where needed with the greatest
  speed and agility, the highest efficiency and the
  most reliable level of trust and accuracy.

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Organization
USTRANSCOM
Air Mobility Command (AMC)
Military Sealift Command (MSC)
Surface Deployment Distribution Command (SDDC)

• Airlift
• Aerial Port Operations
• In-Flight Refueling

• Sealift

• Surface Movement
• Seaport Operations
• Theater Distribution

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Deployable Distribution C2 Capabilities
COCOM
CJFMCC
CJFLCC
CJSOC
CJFACC
JDDOC
AugmentedJDDOC
TSC/FSSG
DM4-S SMD
DM4-A AMD

• Provides the COCOM
• National Partner Support
• C2 of Theater Distribution
• ITV/TAV Nodes
• Initial Port Capabilities
• Air/Surface Movement Control
• E2E Foundation

JTF Port Opening
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AMC Tactical Communication Suites
Initial Deployment
Sustainment
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SDDC Tactical Communication Suites
Mobile Port Operations Center (MPOC)
Inmarsat
Iridium
SWORDS
Deployed Port Operations Center (DPOC)
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MSC Tactical Communication Suites
Mobile Seaport Operations Center (MSOC)
Inmarsat-BEST
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TRANSCOM C4S Fly Away Kit

• 16 SIRPNET
• 16 NIPRNET
• 4 VoIP
• 4 STE devices

Designed to meet initial USTRANSCOM Deployment
Distribution Operations Center Forward C4S
requirements in response to natural disasters and
terrorist attacks.
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Mobile Communications Systems

• Blue Force Tracking
• Cargo Tracking

OSA/VIP/SAM

• Inmarsat
• Iridium
• Ku
• GATM

Airlift Force Deployment

• Inmarsat
• Iridium
• Safety of Flight
• GATM

Sea Lift

• Inmarsat
• Inmarsat BEST
• Iridium
• Safety

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In-Transit Visibility Asset Tracking
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Applications

• Iridium
• Primary and backup C2
• Mission coordination
• Advanced team support
• When nothing else works
• In-transit Visibility (ITV)/Cargo Tracking
• Inmarsat
• Primary C2 and C4 for initial deployment
• Sustaining comm for smaller deployments
• In-transit Visibility (ITV)/Cargo Tracking
• Wideband (C Ku)
• Sustaining communications to support aerial and
  seaport operations at austere locations
• Transitioning to VSAT for initial and sustained
  support

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Challenges

• Foreign Frequency Clearance/Landing Rights (C/Ku)
• Complexity of commercial SATCOM contracting
  (C/Ku)
• Evolution from traditional FDMA point-to-point
  networks to MF-TDMA networks (IP SATCOM)

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Concerns

• Inefficient use of contracted bandwidth (no
  central management)
• Antenna pointing at teleports
• Time Phased Force Flow allocation of military and
  commercially contracted SATCOM
• Procurement of commercial bandwidth process needs
  to be streamlined required documentation is
  burdensome and duplicative

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Recommendations

• Develop Time Phased Deployment plan for bandwidth
  allocation
• Allocate to initial deploying forces from the
  onset
• Reallocate to sustaining forces as theater
  matures
• Create a one-stop-shop for requesting, procuring,
  and provisioning all (DOD and commercial) SATCOM
  service and access to STEP/Teleport and DISN
  services
• Update SHF SAR to include all fields required for
  commercial SATCOMeliminate the CSS

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Questions?
POC
LCDR Michael Niedert michael.niedert_at_ustranscom.mi
l Mr Jimmy Ables jimmy.ables.ctr_at_ustranscom.mil
618 256-8475 DSN 576-8475