Teleport Program

Abstract

Department of Defense (DoD) Teleport system is a satellite communications (SATCOM) gateway that links the deployed warfighter to the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN). Currently, the Teleport system operates as an upgrade of SATCOM capabilities at selected DoD SATCOM gateways. This system provides deployed warfighters with seamless worldwide multi-band SATCOM connectivity to the Defense Information System Network (DISN) Service Delivery Nodes and legacy tactical command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence systems. It also provides centralized integration capabilities, contingency capacity, and common interfaces to access the DISN. DoD Teleport's goal is to provide secure, seamless, interoperable, and economical upgrades to DoD SATCOM Gateways and meet the growing throughput requirements of the deployed warfighter. The primary beneficiaries of the DoD Teleport investment are the DoD Combatant Commanders, Military Departments, Defense Agencies, and the warfighter. Teleport planned test events for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and the MUOS Voice Gateway (MVG) and to Legacy Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Gateway Component (MLGC). The U.S. Space Force MUOS program is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system that supports worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while maintaining interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability. MUOS provides greater than 10 times the system capacity of the current UHF constellation. The Teleport Program has developed the MLGC and MVG systems to facilitate interoperability between MOUS users and legacy users. MLGC provides interoperability between MUOS users and legacy UHF users by installing MUOS-to-Legacy UHF SATCOM Gateway Component (MLGC) suites of equipment at DoD Teleport sites. MUOS will provide the warfighter with modern worldwide mobile communication services, using the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access waveform for use in the military UHF SATCOM band. MLGC suites also help DoD tactical satellite users transition from legacy waveforms and radios to the Joint Tactical Radio System. SATCOM Ordering, Management & Situational Awareness Tools (SOMSAT) (additional technical details can be provided at appropriate classification levels): SOMSAT is an enterprise solution that enables DISA's customers to purchase Satellite tools in a convenient location. The SOMSAT application brings together multiple legacy offerings to streamline the processes to order and provide satellite resources to the users. SOMSAT is a one-stop shop for satellite resources. Enterprise SATCOM Management and Control (ESC-MC) Reference Architecture (RA) is designed to achieve a resilient and efficient centrally managed SATCOM architecture that distributes control to Element MC entities. SOMSAT is a critical part of the DoD CIO ESC-MC Implementation Plan (ESC-MC IP), which outlines tasks that need to be accomplished to implement the DoD's Digital Modernization Strategy (DMS). This will modernize Warfighter Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (C4) Infrastructure and Systems, allowing faster allocation of resources needed (by today's agile war fighting force. The modernization will bring the typical space resource request from up to 30 days processing time with the legacy systems and processes down to a few days or even hours.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 1203610K_7_0400_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: Note: FY 2023 amount includes +$18.257 net reprogramming supports development of SOMSAT solution and -$0.046 that was transferred for the SBIR/STRR programs.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

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