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ability. Although much work remains to be done, the vision of improved warfighter situational understanding, lethality, survivability, and overall combat effectiveness via high capacity BLOS communications is closer than ever to reality. Mr. Swenarton is serving as the TMD chief for PM Warfigher Information Network-Tactical. Mr. Levchenko, P.E., serves as a senior systems engineer for SATCOM on-the-Move development, test and integration for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 2 and associated Army Team C4ISR programs. Mr. Gonzalez has provided direct system engineering support to the U.S. Army Program Executive Office; Project Manager, Military Strategic, Tactical and Relay , PM Military Satellite Communications and PM Warfighter Information Network- Tactical for the past 16 years. His area of expertise is in Military satellite communication systems such as MILSTAR, UFO, GBS and GAPFILLER. Before joining the LinQuest Corporation he worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Bendix Corporation, and BAE Systems. Mr. Lange is a systems engineer at Project Manager, Warfighter Information Network-Tactical. He holds an M.E. degree in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology 24 Summer 2008 and a B.S. degree in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Mr. Pedoto is an independent consultant supporting the Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, Project ADAPT – Affordable Directional Antenna and Pointing Technologies APUC – Average Procurement Unit Cost ASI – Adjacent Satellite Interference ATO-D – Army Technology Objective-Demonstration BLOS – Beyond Line-of-Sight BPSK – Biphase Shift Keying C4ISR – Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance CERDEC – Communications- Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center CIs – Configuration Items COTS – Commercial Off-The-Shelf EDMs – Engineering Development Models FCC – Federal Communications Commission FEC – Forward Error Correction FOW – Forward Order Wire FSS – Fix Satellite Service FY – fiscal year GSO – Geosynchronous HAIPE – High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor HMMWV – Highly Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ACRONYM QUICKSCAN Manager, Warfighter Information Network-Tactical in the areas of test and evaluation of Satellite Communications terminals and tactical communications, including the development of SATCOM on-the-move terminals. He holds an M.S. degree in management science and a B.S.E.E. INU – Inertial Navigation Unit ISO – International Organization for Standardization ITU – International Telecommunications Union LOS – Line-of-Sight MBCOTM – Mounted Battle Command on-the-Move MRAP – Mine Resistant Ambush Protected NC – Network Controller NCW – Network Centric Waveform NM – Network Members OQPSK – Offset Quadrature Phase Key Shifting OSPF – Open Shortest Path First OTM – On-the-Move PEP – Performance Enhancing Proxy PIM – Protocol Independent Multicast PoP – Point-of-Presence ROW – Return Order Wire SCPS – Space Communications Protocol Standards SNE – Soldier Network Extension SOTM – SATCOM On-the-Move SWAP – Size, Weight, and Power TCN – Tactical Communication Node WAN – Wide Area Network WGS – Wideband Global SATCOM WIN-T – Warfighter Information Network Tactical
Satellite communications for company level warfighter By Richard S. Wexler and Syed R. Ali One of the lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan was the need for a more robust beyond line-ofsightcommunication capability between the lower Army echelon land warriors, squad leaders, platoon leaders, companycommanders and the battalion commanders. These lower echelon units currently rely on radios that are propagation range constrained to the line-of-sight distance between the radios. The tactical communications radios that currently service the lower echelon Army units are dominated by two LOS Combat Network Radios that include the Enhanced Position Location Reporting System and the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System. The Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 2 program will develop the Soldier Network Extension On-the-Move Satellite Communications, which will augment and enhance the communications limitations of the current LOS CNRs. The BLOS communications capability of the SNE combined with its ability to communicate on-themove will help to close the communication gap existing between the various tactical legacy radio networks. This shortfall was identified by a United States Army Training and Doctrine Command study, and Figure 1. Operational view with NCW SATCOM Net to extend BN/CO-level SINCGARS and EPLRS Combat Net Radio Traffic. the need for a low cost Single Integrated Transport System was suggested. The basic requirements for providing this lower echelon communications solution include: � Interface compatibility requirements with future networking systems; � Potential for interoperability with higher echelons; � Baseband compatibility requirements with existing digitized lower echelon units; � Information Assurance/ Encryption Requirements; � At-the-Halt/On-the-Move Capabilities. These requirements formed that basis of the WIN-T SNE. The network healing process is synonymous with a bridging capability whereas network thickening offers enhanced bandwidth capability between nodes. The SNE will provide both network thickening and healing for the CNR nets that support communications between the company commanders and the battalion’s command post as depicted in Figure 1. The majority of the Army Warfighter’s communications traffic served by the SNE network includes command and control messages and voice exchanges, as well as situational awareness traffic. The SNE would serve as an access port for extending the range of the legacy CNRs to both heal and thicken these range-limited networks. Basic requirements Some high level SNE requirements are provided below: � Operate over both commercial and Department of Defense satellites at Ku and Ka-band, respectively; � OTM and ATH 64 to 128 Kbps user data rate capability (clear sky conditions – reduced throughput under rain conditions or severe satellite transponder loading); � Support IPv4/6 routed traffic; � Transmission will be based on Demand-Assigned Multi- Frequency Time Division Multiple Access WIN-T Network Centric Waveform for SATCOM application; � Hub-Assist (Hub-Spoke) and peer-to-peer connectivity; � Will support anticipated force structure subnet scheme with likely 36 members per Army Communicator 25
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