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SATCOM For Net-Centric Warfare March 2015 MilsatMagazine MILSATCOM Technologies Featuring: COMMAND CENTER Peter F. Hoene, President & CEO, SES GS & Tip Osterthaler, Former President & CEO, SES GS Advances in COTM Emerging DoD Needs Require Innovation Discriminating, Affordable Technological Innovations for MILSATCOM HPA Corner: New and Advanced Technologies Extending the Lifetime of High Power TWTAs Instability Drvies Mobility for Special Ops & Army Driving Down the Cost of Phased Array Antennas Eyes On Targets: Aerial Surveillance A Case in Point: KenCast Aids JMA’s Himawaricast GPS Signal Solutions: A Moog Technical Focus Expeditionary Warfare Demands Exceptional Communications More Classified Programs and Technical Track Expansion at the Space Foundation’s 31st Space Symposium MilsatMagazineMarch 2015 Publishing Operations Dispatches Silvano Payne, Publisher + Writer Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director STS Global Debuts ............................................5 Kosovo Is The Training Ground For Calvary Pattie Waldt, Executive Editor Scouts & Comm Systems ................................32 Jill Durfee, Sales Director, Editorial Assistant Sicral-2 Safely Settled @ Guiana Space Center Simon Payne, Development Director For Launch In April ............................................6 For Battle Success, Space Planning Is Essential ..38 Donald McGee, Production Manager Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor COM DEV’s Strategic Growth L-3 Communications Systems-West Gets The Senior Contributors Plans Uncovered ................................................6 Nod For Nodes ...............................................39 Mike Antonovich, ATEME WIN-T Increment 2 From General Dynamics Airbus Defence & Space… You’re On To Build Tony Bardo, Hughes Infuses Stryker Brigades....................................8 Three CERES Satellites ....................................39 R. Dutchik, Dutchik-Chang Communications Chris Forrester, Broadgate Publications U.S.A.F.’s New SBIRS Ground System U.S. Assists Ukraine… Flys In Ravens, Radar, Karl Fuchs, iDirect Government Services Successfully Integrated .....................................8 Radios + Humvees...........................................40 Bob Gough, Carrick Communications Jos Heyman, TIROS Space Information Full Situational Awareness Coming With UK MoD’s Greatest Defence Is Airbus Defence Carlos Placido, Placido Consulting Inmarsat Government’s LAISR ........................10 & Space ............................................................40 Giles Peeters, Track24 Defence Bert Sadtler, Boxwood Strategies Koen Willems, Newtec Thales’ VENUS SOTM Terminals x20 For O3b Selects AvL Technologies .......................46 French Force’s SYRACUSE III ..........................11 To Build A Constellation Of 24 BitSats, Authors Bits & Pieces Of DMSP-13 No Threat To That’s The Plan ................................................46 Amy Akmal ESA Missions ...................................................11 Carolyn Belle Comtech Xicom—SuperPower Products Debut, Josh Bruckmeyer Equity Stake By Boeing in SoftBank’s Disaster Capes Not Included… .....................................48 Dan Delventhal Response Satellite System ..............................12 Karl Fuchs Orbit Logic’s Solutions Heading To U.S. Tim Frei Upgrades For U.S. Army Manpacks ................25 Government Customer....................................49 Rick Lober Sgt. 1st. Class Tyrone C. Marshall, Jr. Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel America’s Army Facing Sequestration ‘Enemy’ USAF SMC + Lockheed Martin Dig Dirt .........59 At Home ..........................................................26 Sgt. Melissa Parrish Mike Payne Nation “Would Be Less Secure” Cheryl Pellerin Protected MILSATCOM Test Successfully Under Sequestration .......................................66 Conducted By U.S.A.F. ....................................25 Heidi Thelander VULCAN From ETL Systems Brings RF Signal Distribution Into Position ................................32 MilsatMagazine is published 11 times a year by SatNews Publishers, 800 Siesta Way, Sonoma, CA 95476 USA, Phone: (707) 939-9306, Fax: (707) 939-9235 © 2015 SatNews Publishers We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet publication content guidelines, as well as for grammar and spelling errors, or to move articles to an alternative issue to accommodate publication space requirements, or remove content due to space restrictions. Submission of content does not constitute acceptance of said material by SatNews Publishers. Edited materials may, or may not, be returned to author and/or company for review prior to publication. The views expressed in SatNews Publishers’ various publications do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SatNews Publishers. All rights reserved. All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies and/or named individuals. 4 MilsatMagazine — March 2015 Features COMMAND CENTER ...................................................................................14 Driving Down the Cost of Phased Array Antennas ......................................52 Peter F. Hoene, President & CEO, SES Government Solutions (SES GS) By Josh Bruckmeyer, System Architect, Harris Corporation Special Appearance: Tip Osterthaler, Former President & CEO, SES GS Eyes on Targets: Aerial Surveillance .............................................................54 Advances in Communications-On-The-Move (COTM)..................................30 By Mike Payne, Global Chief Technical Officer, VISLINK By Karl Fuchs, Senior Contributor + V.P. of Technology, iDirect Government A Case in Point: KenCast is Well-Suited To Aid JMA’s Himawaricast .........56 Emerging DoD Needs Require Innovation: A Hughes Perspective .............34 By Dan Delventhal, Director of Sales and Marketing, KenCast, Inc. By Rick Lober, Senior Contributor + V.P., G.M., Hughes Defense and Intelligence Systems Division GPS Signal Solutions: A Moog Technical Focus ...........................................60 By Brian Giesinger, Senior Avionics Engineer, + Igor Lazbin, Senior Staff Discriminating, Affordable Technological Innovations For MILSATCOM ....36 Spacecraft Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer, Moog Broad Reach By Tim Frei, Vice President, Communication Systems, Northrop Grumman Expeditionary Warfare Demands Exceptional Communications .................62 HPA Corner: New and Advanced Technologies ..........................................42 By Garr R. Stephenson, Jr., UltiSat, Inc. By Amy Akmal, Communications, Space Systems, Northrop Grumman More Classified Programs and Technical Track Expansion ..........................64 Extending the Lifetime of High Power TWTAs ............................................44 at the Space Foundation’s 31st Space Symposium By Heidi Thelander, Sr. Dir., Comtech Xicom Technology Instability Drives Mobility for Special Ops and Army ..................................50 By Carolyn Belle, Analyst, NSR USA Advertisers 31st Space Symposium (Space Foundation) .................................................55 NAB — Nat’l Association of Broadcasters ...................................................47 Acorde Technologies S.A. .............................................................................39 Newtec CY .....................................................................................................25 Advantech Wireless .......................................................................................68 Norsat International Inc. .................................................................................5 Agile Milcoms ................................................................................................35 NSR (Northern Sky Research) .......................................................................51 Airbus Defence & Space .................................................................................3 SatFinder .......................................................................................................33 AvL Technologies ............................................................................................2 SES Government Solutions ...........................................................................23 Comtech EF Data ..........................................................................................13 Superior Satellite Engineers ..........................................................................59 Comtech Xicom Technology ............................................................ Cover + 7 TeleCommunication Systems ........................................................................17 CPI Satcom Products .......................................................................................9 Teledyne Paradise Datacom .........................................................................67 DataPath, Inc. ................................................................................................29 UltiSat, Inc. ....................................................................................................25 EM Solutions, Inc. (EMS) ...............................................................................11 Ultra Electronics, GigaSat .............................................................................19 GL Communications, Inc. ..............................................................................49 W.B. Walton Enterprises ...............................................................................41 iDirect Government