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The Growing Convergence of DoD and
Commercial Protected SATCOM Requirements
12 APR 2016
Steve Williams
Chris Badgett
719-598-2801
• Commercial SATCOM
– Communications
– Financial and banking
– Power grid operation
– Security
– Healthcare
– Transportation
– Disaster Relief
• DoD SATCOM
– Command and Control
– Reconnaissance
– Monitoring
– Weather
– Relief and Warfare Communications
• Three Key Areas of Converging Requirements
– Increasing Bandwidth Availability
– Improved SATCOM Planning
– Reliable Protected Communications
Needs / Converging Requirements
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– Distribution Systems
• Food
• Water
• Medicine
• Fuel
• Vital Products
Needs / Converging Requirements
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Glover (USN), CAPT Mark. "Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), Communications and GPS Navigation Program Office (PMW/A 170), NDIA San Diego Fall Industry Event” page 9. Navy.mil. US Navy, 28 October, 2015. Web. 28 March, 2016.
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• Commercially
– Bandwidth needs double every 2-3 years
• Meeting the needs
– More satellites
• High Throughput Satellites (HTS)
– More efficient BW Utilization
• Dynamic reallocation of available bandwidth
• Leveraging concepts from Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM)
• Wide-band frequency hopping
• Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)
– Improved SATCOM Planning
• Automated systems at electronic speeds
• Dynamically responsive to BW availability
• Smart interference detection and avoidance
• Automatic equipment control at both ends of the SATCOM links
– Reliable Protected Communications
Meeting the Needs
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Reliable Protected Communications
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Commercial Protected SATCOM
DoD Protected SATCOM
Protection Progression
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Sense Learn & Adapt Protect & Harden
Fight Through
tools that allow data trending,
analysis and the ability to see what
is going on
fight through threats using
advanced signal processing
protect against the
threats
quickly know when something is wrong and
communications are being impacted
• Spectral Monitoring • Network Health
Monitoring • Cyber Attack Sensors
• Monitoring • Logging • Trend Analysis • Historical
Matching • Attribution • Prediction • Automatic Adapt
• EMI Geolocation • EMI Cancellation • Packet Forward
Error Correction (PFEC)
• Intelligent Retransmission Protocol (IRP)
• Robust LPI, LPD and LPE
• WB FH SS • DSSS • PTW
• End-to-end Link Protection Strategies
– Protection in the Design Process
– Ground System Protection
– Signal Monitoring
– Transponder / Satellite Monitoring
– Interference Cancellation
– Geolocation
– Training
– Integrated Solutions
Link Protection Strategies
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Protection in the Design Process
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Computer Control for Automatic R&D,
Regression and Production Test
Modem or Transmit
System/Component
Under test
Modem or Receive
System/Component
Under test
Transponder
Simulator
Channel
Simulator
Satellite
Signal
Generator
Satellite
Signal
Emulator
Additional Instruments and Test
Support Equipment
The first step
• Fast and reliable IP traffic
– WAN issues
• Dropped packets, indeterminate latency, variable jitter, packet duplication,
packet reordering, etc.
• TCP/IP generally masks these, and delivers data acceptably
• Many mission critical applications cannot tolerate TCP/IP retransmit/ack
behavior when attempting to deliver consistent data at required rates
– Helpful Protocols
• Packet Forward Error Correction (PFEC)
• Intelligent Retransmission Protocol (IRP)
– End-to-end latency control
– Real-time network health monitoring and reporting
– Cyber attack detection via National IA Partnership (NIAP) and Security
Information and Event Management (SIEM)
– Antenna Site Diversity (and other capabilities) via Digital IF
• Fail-over, WX issues, etc.
Ground System Protection
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Signal Monitoring
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Authorized Signal
Unauthorized Signals
Advanced Spectrum Analysis (without a priori signal knowledge)
Easy to learn and use Spectrum Analyzer controls.
Constellation diagrams for enhanced EMI & signal recognition.
Automatic signal characterization leads to attribution
Signal Monitoring
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• Signal Monitoring
– Tactical tools for troubleshooting and SA
– EMI detection for overt EMI, covert EMI, operator error, equipment
malfunction, etc.
– Strategic tools for enhanced decision making & attribution
– Spectrally-aware / reporting devices
– Self-healing SATCOM devices
Transponder/Satellite Monitoring
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Usage %
Up
Planned:
40.0%
Up
Unplanned:
0.2%
Down
Planned:
2.2%
Down
Unplanned:
57.6%
Interference Cancellation
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• Maintain communications in degraded environments. • Utilizes dynamic and adaptive DSP to isolate, then reduce/remove interferer.
Signal Geolocation
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Geolocation System Receiving Station
Primary Satellite Secondary
Satellite
Reference signal from satID Transmit Unit, or any other known signal from a known location.
Interference Source
Solid lines = Majority of Signal Energy Dashed lines = Some Signal Energy
• Ever-advancing ground system capabilities • On-orbit capabilities
Virtual and Live Training Systems
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Training System
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Networked or Local Instructor
(Optional)
• SATCOM, Signals and EMI
Authorized Signal
Unauthorized Signals
Virtual and Live Training Systems
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LNA/LNB Receive Antenna
Down-converter
Up-converter
HPA Transmit Antenna
MODEM Training System
Net
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Network - Crypto - Users - ADNS - Etc.
Internal Injection (no impact on signals or
other equipment)
Optional Connections to live signals and
systems.
Networked or Local Instructor
(Optional)
• SATCOM, Signals and EMI • Equipment • Procedures • Built-in training capabilities
Integrated Solutions
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IF Conversion and A/D
Modem Functions
Integrated Spectral Awareness Functions
Integrated Test & Training Functions
D/A and IF Conversion
Advanced Modem
IF In IF Out
Ethernet
Authorized Signal
Unauthorized Signals
Integrated EMI Mitigation
Integrated Network Protection
Tact
ical
To
ols
Protected Waveforms
Strategic Tools
(Combined data from multiple systems for broad RF Situational
Awareness)
• SATCOM is a vital infrastructure element for DoD and Commercial SATOM
• Significant Convergence of Requirements
– Increased Bandwidth Availability
– Improved SATCOM Planning
– Reliable Protected Communications
• Designed-in and Tested-in Innovative Protection Capabilities
– Awareness and Tolerance
• Increased BW utilization efficiency
– Systems and Planning Dynamic
• Supporting Networks and Ground Systems
– Network monitoring, health and correction
• Continuously evolving Tactical and Strategic Tools
• Constant and current Training, local and schoolhouse
– SATCOM, Signals, EMI, Equipment, Procedures, etc.
• Integrated Solutions
– Highly capable, easy to use, dynamically adaptive, low cost, low SWaP
• All most quickly evolve toward HTS needs
Summary
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Questions?
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Steve Williams [email protected]
Chris Badgett
[email protected] 719-598-2801