Protected Tactical SATCOM
Abstract
The centerpiece of the Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS) system is a new, more resilient Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW), designed to mitigate the effects of advanced jamming in Anti-Access/Area Denial environments. The DoD will be implementing PTW to ensure delivery of protected tactical SATCOM to the joint and coalition warfighters in contested, degraded environments. The Protected Tactical Service Field Demonstration (PTSFD) is paving the way for the operationalization of PTW by developing production-representative PTW modems that can be used by the Services to upgrade their currently fielded terminals. In conjunction, the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) program is developing a mission management, key management and hub system to enable PTW via transponded Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites, with future extension to commercial SATCOM and PTS. PTS will provide worldwide, fully processed, beyond line of sight, Anti-Jam (AJ), low probability of intercept communications to tactical warfighters in both benign and contested environments via space-based fully processed SATCOM payloads. PTS will leverage the mission management and key management systems developed under the PTES program for mission planning, and will deliver a PTS ground architecture capable of integrating with PTES ground. PTS, with its on-board payload processing and antenna design, will bring advanced anti-jam capability and increased capacity. The system will also employ interfaces consistent with AFSPC's ongoing resilience initiatives and Enterprise Ground Services; thereby enhancing mission assurance, resiliency, and interoperability. PTS will address the protected tactical MILSATCOM capability gaps identified in the Joint Space Communications Layer Initial Capabilities Document (JSCL ICD), the Protected Satellite Communications Services (PSCS) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), and in the PSCS AoA Follow-on for Resiliency (PAFR). To meet the warfighter requirements for protected tactical MILSATCOM and the capability gaps identified in these studies, PTS will carry out essential Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) activities requiring RDT&E funding to evaluate and develop system requirements, architectures, prototypes, development efforts, engineering efforts, and manufacturing efforts. Additionally, RDT&E funding is needed to mature technology, reduce risks, and conduct testing and evaluation of PTS systems and segments, to include space, ground, and terminal/user segments. The current and future space domain demands that space systems be responsive to new and changing threats, and can rapidly integrate new capabilities to make our warfighting force more resilient in a contested battlespace. This agility, survivability, and rapid reconstitution must extend through the entire space warfighting enterprise, to include how we learn about the threat; develop solutions; acquire, test, deploy, train, operate and integrate new systems into the greater system of systems; and ensure our space mission force is ready to defeat a thinking adversary in a complex, multi-domain battlespace. The enterprise will use all of its elements to accelerate decision-making, prototype potential solutions, rapidly integrate decision-making tools and sustain a war-winning capability by delivering multi-domain effects in, from, and through space and cyberspace enabling battle management and resilience options to "fight through." This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Protected Tactical Service (PTS) weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392F and 1206398F. This program is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in as high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 643728_1206761F_4_3600_PB_2019
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