NAVY SATCOM USERS WORKSHOP

Hosted by the

Satellite Industry Association (SIA) and NAVY PEO - SPAWAR

Wednesday, June 6 th, 2007
Mission Bay Hilton, San Diego, CA

Agenda

8:30am - 8:45am -- Opening and Introduction (NAVY PEO): Kai Tang

8:45am – 10:30am

• U.S. Navy Commercial Satellite Communications Background/Strategy: Kai Tang (25 min)
• History and trends of U.S. Navy commercial satellite communications usage
• Current Satellite Communications Architectures (FSS/MSS)
• Navy MILSATCOM and COMMSATCOM Roadmap
• Centralized funding
• Requirements
• Commercial SATCOM Today and Future
• Commercial Wideband Satellite Program (CWSP): Jerry Rudeck (10 min)
• Inmarsat: Steve Keeley (10 min)
• Television- Direct to Sailors (TV-DTS): John Selberg (10 min)
• Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP): Melinda Ratz (10 min)
• Shipboard networks: Kurt Fiscko (10 min)
• Aeronautical: LT Sumner Lee (10 min)
• Navy Expeditionary Combatant Command (NECC): Kai Tang (10 min)
• Submarine Communications: Mike Hutter (10 min)

11:00am – 11:15am – Morning Break

11:15am – 12:30pm

• Challenges
• Cradle to Grave (Acquisition and Fielding of Capability): Kurt Fiscko (30 min)
• SPAWAR Contracting Processes: Karen Rainville (15 min)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

• Futron Presentation (Comsatcom Trends/Future Comsat Capabilities/Coverage)
• Andrea Maleter, Futron Corp.

• Industry’s Views/Recommendations re: DoD’s Leasing of Comsatcom
• David Cavossa, SIA

• Commercial UHF and Wideband Gap Fillers (i.e. X-Band, L-Band, Hosted Payloads)
• William Schmidt, XTAR
• JJ Shaw, Inmarsat
• Don Brown, Intelsat General

• Security/Protection Issues
• DSTS-G Contract Enhancements
• Bruce Crandall, Arrowhead Global Solutions
• Abbas Yazdani, Artel Inc 

3:30 – 4:00pm -- Break

4:00pm – 5:30pm

• Comsatcom Vs. Milsatcom -- “Fee vs. Free ”
• Richard DalBello, Intelsat General
• Bill Reiner, Boeing
• Robert Cleave, Lockheed Martin
• Peter Hadinger, Northrop Grumman

• COTS-based solutions for DoD SATCOM Requirements
• “Agility and Responsiveness”
• Nelson Santini, Datapath (5-7 minutes)
• “Boomerang Beam”
• Kay Sears, Intelsat General (5-7 minutes)