Architecture and management of DoD satellite communications programs
Abstract
DoD has used satellites since the early 1960s. Early R&D programs have transitioned in the current generation of systems to investment programs. The next generation architecture is largely defined, uses both UHF and SHF, and will be implemented in the next few years. The Military Satellite Office at the Defense Communications Agency has played a key role in the definition of future program plans and architectural studies. A review of the management and DoD organization for MILSATCOM has been undertaken. The Air Force now has responsibility for all MILSATCOM space segment funding, development, and acquisition for the next generation systems, and there is a considerable strengthening and focusing of the role of the MSO in system engineering, program management, and architecture development. Management analyses continue on funding strategies, and the mix of leased and purchased satellite services and systems.
- Publication:
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Imaginative Engineering thru Education and Experience
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977ieee.conf...21B
- Keywords:
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- Defense Communications Satellite System;
- Defense Program;
- Project Management;
- Spacecraft Communication;
- Systems Engineering;
- Superhigh Frequencies;
- Ultrahigh Frequencies;
- Communications and Radar