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UAS ROADMAP 2005
connectivity to GIG-BE via teleports and direct connectivity to manned and unmanned airborne
platforms.
AEHF
(1,2,3)
Adv Polar
(3 HIO)
IC Backbone
JTRS / Wireless Connectivity
AWS/TSAT
(5 GEO)
MUOS
(6 GEO)
GIG BE/Teleport Connectivity
FIGURE C-6. THE TRANSFORMATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE.
MILSATCOM through 2015. Under the current schedule WGS, DSCS, and GBS Phase II deployment
begins in 2005. Advanced EHF satellite deployment begins in 2005, as well. However, Mobile User
Objective System (MUOS) deployment does not begin until 2008, which will require commercial
augmentation.
LaserComm
Airborne and orbiting optical data links, or LaserComm, will offer data rates two to five orders of
magnitude greater than those of the best future RF systems, and provide a direct connection between high
flying UAs, such as Global Hawk, and TSAT in the 2013 time frame. Key technical challenges remain,
however. Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) technologies, that ensure the laser link was both
acquired and maintained have not yet been perfected. Although LaserComm could surpass RF in terms of
airborne data transfer rate, RF will continue to dominate at the lower altitudes for some time into the
future because of its better all-weather capabilities.
Information Assurance
IA protection is required in each GIG domain (information, communications, and management and
control). The GIG features a protected black core supporting multiple security levels with edge-to-edge
protection for information flows (Figure C-7). Key security features will include:
authentication/encryption; network control policy functions; packet header masking on high-risk
communications; and dynamic intrusion/attack detection and reaction capability.
APPENDIX C - COMMUNICATIONS
Page C-12
WGS (5 GEO)
(X, Ka)
• TCA will remove communications as a constraint to warfighter ope rations
– Vastly more capacity; voice, video, and data services
– Seamless connectivity between terrestrial, wireless, and SATCOM users
– Exfiltration & relay of unprecedented amounts of tactical sensorinformation
• TCA uniquely enables transformational warfightingdoctrine/organizations
– Dynamic, self organizing networks, any source to any destination
– High data rates across multiple subnets with prioritization, qua lity of service
– Provides broadband, protected access towarfighterson the move
– Supports DoD, Intelligence Community, and NASA
RF
Laser