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)