PTW Over Commercial
Abstract
Project 643733 was created starting in FY 2024 for PTW Over Commercial to deliver PTW to the warfighter in various orbits utilizing commercial (to include international) SATCOM constellations enabling more resilient by design architectures. This is not a New Start and is a continuation of efforts that began in the PTES Project 643726 in FY 2023 to build upon efforts to operationalize PTW over WGS. This Project reflects the next instantiation of the PATS architecture's integrated, incremental approach to enable PTW service through commercial satellites with processing that will occur on the ground. This Project will expand the development of PTES program elements to include requirement, architecture, and interface development to leverage PTES MMS/KMS systems and JH Variants (JHVs) to enable PTW via transponded commercial satellites. In FY 2024, resilient architecture funding to support this development was realigned to AFRL to improve theater allied and commercial integration for increased SATCOM flexibility for the warfighter. The objective of PTW Over Commercial is to upgrade the established PTES ground system to provide an operational AJ capability in various orbits including Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) by utilizing emerging satellite technologies. Leverages PTES development to design, build, integrate, and test an AJ communications capability for a PTW utility over commercial SATCOM constellations to support filling critical tactical SATCOM gaps and improve overall theater warfighting SATCOM flexibility and resiliency. To do this, this Project will also leverage and build on emerging commercial satellite technologies through assessment, experimentation, and development efforts. The PTW Over Commercial effort will execute studies, proof of concept demonstrations, and tests to inform commercial requirements, build out needed improvements to the PTES ground system, and establish needed interoperability with commercial and international systems required to support Joint Force needs. The PATS Commercial capability of the PTES system will achieve IOC by FY 2026 providing resilient commercial capacity and path diversity across ground elements for PTW over commercial SATCOM architectures. For IOC, PATS users are planned and managed using the PTES MMS/KMS and operate for at least one month using a JH or JHV beyond the baseline PTES JH inventory to provide SATCOM using the PTW over one commercial or IP SATCOM satellite. PTES will provide robust PTW operations using multiple commercial satellites at FOC by FY 2028. Collective and complimentary efforts will work to solve complex problems of interoperability, key management, and data sharing that drive the affordability, scalability and performance of USSF's future hybrid architecture.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 643733_1206760SF_4_3620F_PB_2024
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