Teleport Program

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) Teleport program provides multi-frequency Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) and Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) to forward deployed tactical users requiring access to the Defense Information System Network (DISN) on demand. The DoD Teleports are the only system capable of providing this capability to forward deployed users over Commercial SATCOM (C-band and Ku-band) and MILSATCOM (X-band, Ka-band, Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Extremely High Frequency (EHF)) and leverages improved DoD SATCOM and Global Information Grid (GIG) technologies to meet the connectivity, capacity, interoperability, availability, security, and throughput to meet Combatant Commands, Services, and Agency requirements. The FY 2011 funding will provide system engineering, program management support and test activities to integrate the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite systems’ capabilities into the DoD gateway architecture. Without these enhancements, the Teleport gateways and the DISN services provided to SATCOM users will be inaccessible to the warfighter using AEHF’s greatly improved capability, preventing them from using the most high-speed, secure, and interoperable voice, data, and video networks. In addition, MUOS will not be backwards compatible with existing UHF SATCOM equipment and tactical users deployed in harm’s way will be unable to efficiently communicate with one another and their commanders through existing legacy systems.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0303610K_7_0400_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2010 decrement of -$0.022 million reflect is due to Congressional taxes for Economic Assumption. The DoD did not estimate FY 2011 cost when the FY 2010 President’s Budget was prepared.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Satellites
• Bandwidth
• Configuration Management
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Extremely High Frequency
• Frequency
• Information Systems
• Network Protocols
• Networks
• Procurement
• Program Management
• Radio Frequency
• Radio Frequency Devices
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Space
• Space - Satellites