Long-Haul Communications - DCS

Abstract

The Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) is the Department’s consolidated worldwide telecommunications capability that provides secure, end-to-end information transport for Department of Defense (DoD) operations. It also provides the warfighter and the Combatant Commands (COCOMs) with robust Command, Control, Communications, Computing, and Intelligence (C4I) infrastructure to support DoD netcentric missions and business requirements. The Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) is a DoD Secure Voice, Command and Control Network that is controlled and directed by the Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. It provides multilevel secure, rapid, ad hoc, voice calling and conferencing capability to senior Government leadership including the President, Secretary of Defense, Services, COCOMs, subordinate organizations (military and civilian) and allies. DRSN will also support the National Emergency Action Decision Network (NEADN)/Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) and the Enhanced Pentagon Capability/Survivable Emergency Conferencing Network (EPC/SECN). DISN Systems Engineering Support: The RDT&E effort includes 1) engineering for Internet Protocol (IP) and Optical transport capabilities to ensure the essential operations of a robust and secure DISN, 2) refreshment of operational systems and network operating systems that instrument and automate the operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning functions and creating a single DISN-wide view for network managers and operators, and 3) the peripheral and component design in support of the DRSN to sustain continued highly classified, critical senior leadership communications capabilities. NEADN/PNVC: The NEADN provides selected system engineering for continued development and testing of the Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) equipment for senior leaders. The PNVC system provides a military satellite-based, survivable, secure, and near toll-quality voice conferencing capability for the President, Secretary of Defense, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior national/military leaders anywhere in the world as needed. Specifically, the project funding supports the acquisition activities for the PNVC baseband equipment, including critical and essential engineering required to develop new vocoder and cryptographic, and audio-summing equipment. Lack of sufficient funding will significantly impact the implementation of an enhanced, survivable voice conferencing capability to the President and other decision makers. Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS): The DTCS is a variation of the Iridium Satellite Phone used by the warfighter under the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service. The variation improves Iridium’s capability to network and sub-network users to improve performance, reduce end-to-end latency and improve data handling to the handset. New handsets and software modifications will be required to utilize the improved service and allow Iridium satellites to “relay” information between the satellites. A separate Network Management capability will be required because the new service cannot leverage the standard commercial Iridium Network Manager. Funding provides engineering, development and testing resources for continued improvement to the Naval Surface Weapons Center’s (NSWC) Technology Prototype to a fully fielded operational capability. Handsets are already fielded as part of a Central Command (CENTCOM) Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement. Follow-on Research and Development effort includes two additional Handset Variants (Command and Control and Secret Command and Control), Network Management System, User Control Interface, and Satellite Software Modifications. Failure to fully fund would have severe negative impacts on the warfighter in the field in the Southwest Asia area of responsibility (SWA AOR).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0303126K_7_0400_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: The increase of $+33.615 in FY 2010 is due to a +$32.500M JUON Congressional prior approval OCO reprogramming for the Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS); +$1.505M below threshold priority reprogramming to provide funding for the Integrated SATCOM Operations Management (ISOM) JCTD to pay a portion of the consortium funding for the policy based network management tool; -$.206M funding reduction of software engineering and design for new DISN Element Technologies ; the requirement was deferred to FY 2011; -$.337M reduction from contract efficiencies from classified voice Engineering Change Proposals; +$.458M Classified Voice DSS-2A switch development and -$.305M reduction PNVC/NEADN due to contract efficiencies. The FY 2012 base funding increase of +$2.872 is due to increased funding for PNVC Broadband Interface Group (BIG) contract. The increase for FY 2012 OCO funding of +$10.500 is to support the demand for an additional 3,000 to 5,000 devices requested by CENTCOM.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Satellites
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Information Systems
• Military Satellites
• Network Architecture
• Network Protocols
• Networks
• Procurement
• Systems Engineering
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Central Command
• Vehicles
• Voice Communications

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space
• Space - Satellites