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Critically Needed Future

Technologies for

Effective and Robust

Satellite Communications

MILCOM2015 Panel

Len Schiavone

Director of Technology

Integrated Communications Systems

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Today’s Environment

Operations in contested and

denied environments

Emphasis on protected/secure

communications and

resiliency

Near peer threats growing

CONOPS evolving to deal

with loss of or limited

SATCOM

Affordability under significant

budget pressures

Exponential growth in sensors

and systems

Need to rapidly deploy to

natural disasters, crisis and

conflict

Growing regional instabilities

Driving Factors

Complex environment needs protection, resiliency

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Protected & Resiliency Demands

Driving New Technology Needs

Protected SATCOM Links are essential– Anti-Jam, Low Probability of Exploitation

Commercial Space incorporating protection features– Small spot beams, agile digital payloads, carrier ID

Leverage space diversity, devolve and disperse traffic across assets– Multiple levels of space capabilities at various orbits

Use of an aerial communications layer– Potential of aerial layer to enhance resiliency

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Downlink Perspective Adds Focus

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Increase transmitter power

Increase antenna gain

Increase antenna gain

Reduce noise figure

Reduce req’d receive

power

Decrease link losses

The Ultimate Goal:

Smaller, cheaper &

more capable user

terminals

User terminal G/T

requirements drive

Size & Cost

Link budget dictates

key leverage points

for technology

investment and

system design

innovation

Technology Investment Leverage

Ex: Gallium nitride PAs

Ex: Multiple beam antennas

System Design Innovation Leverage

Ex: MEO/LEO constellations

Technology Investment Leverage

Ex: Efficient, affordable arrays

Ex: Noise reduction techniques

Ex: Energy/spectrum efficient waveforms

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Affordable Protected Tactical Comms– Emerging Protected Tactical SATCOM

AEHF addresses Nuclear and Contested Environments– Narrow-beams, spread spectrum, AJ and LPI/D

US Gov’t developing unclassified Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW)– Near-term: Implement PTW on existing transponded

payloads such as WGS and commercial

– Longer term: Designed to support new satellites with Protected MILSATCOM payloads

– Goal is standard exportable waveform and crypto

New Lower SWAP-C protected terminals or upgrades to existing terminals will be possible for tactical edge AJ

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Apertures and RF Modems and

Cryptography

Waveforms and

Signal Processing

Suite B

Transmission

Security

Multi-band

Reflectors

Multi-beam

Arrays

Advanced RF

Components

Programmable Modems

with Flexible Packaging

Protected

Tactical

Waveform

Coalition

Waveforms

Interference

Cancellation

Technology Enablers

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Advanced

Programmable Logic

& Wideband

ADC/DAC

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Summary

Increasing demand for robust SATCOM on small tactical platforms in

response to more sophisticated and diverse threats

New system concepts and enabling technology to reduce SWAP and

enhance performance needed

Growth in commercial SATCOM services, systems and technologies must

be leveraged for MILSATCOM needs

Targeted investment in military-unique technologies include

– Antenna and RF advances for Military-unique frequency bands and platform requirements

– Cryptography and Transmission Security

– Specialized Anti-Jam, Low Probability of Exploitation waveforms and signal processing techniques

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Enable affordable protection

to tactical edge users