Expeditionary Submarine Fiber Optic Cable (SFOC)
Abstract
Maritime Communications Demonstration (MCD) project, also called the Expeditionary Submarine Fiber Optic Cable (SFOC) Communications Project, is a classified program responsible for developing concepts designed to validate material and non-material solutions providing resilient C2 within the maritime domain. The focus is to demonstrate capabilities leveraging existing DOD investments and infrastructure to move data and information. Demonstration will include maritime assets, experimental methodologies, and current backhaul architecture for data movement. Solutions will address technologies across the RF and Optical spectrum using SFOC communications systems. The key deliverable will be a series of at-sea demonstrations to validate maritime segment components in an operationally representative environment. This is not a new start. In FY17 $2.8M of funding was managed from within the Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) program and used for Maritime Communications Demonstration (MCD) project tasking for transparency. This effort is part of Secretary of Defense's (SECDEF) third offset initiative and was identified as a required operational capability by USEUCOM, USNORTHCOM, USPACOM, and USSTRATCOM. This effort will fund limited technical development and a series of at-sea demonstrations raising the technical readiness levels of various components with a cable handling and deployment system in an operationally representative environment, with the intent to rapidly transition to an operational capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 3420_0606355N_6_1319_PB_2019
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