DCATS’ Product Director Wideband Control. “That means warfighters on a battlefield won’t have to wait in a queue for channels to open up.”


“That’s called ‘cross-banding,’” added David Morrissey, DCATS’ Acting Dep- uty Product Director Wideband Control.


“It provides the warfighter faster, readier access and is a big deal in places that don’t have land-line infrastructure, such as Afghanistan.”


MANY PIECES, PLAYERS The Naval Facilities Engineering Com- mand Hawaii oversaw the construction of the Wahiawa WSOC, with USASMDC/ ARSTRAT tasking three project manage- ment offices of PEO EIS to provide the operating equipment and systems.


PEO EIS’ DCATS Satellite Commu- nication Systems (SCS) product office installed a satellite terminal that had been refurbished at Tobyhanna Army Depot, PA, as the auxiliary satellite control terminal at Wahiawa while the Camp Roberts WSOC remained opera- tional. “That way there was no loss in satellite coverage of the Pacific while we were installing the terminal at Wahiawa,” said Dwayne Cartagena, DCATS’ SCS Product Leader.


The SCS product office provided an AN/ GSC-52 satellite terminal to serve as the WSOC’s auxiliary satellite control termi- nal, supplied baseband equipment, and linked the WSOC’s Interconnect Facility to three nearby AN/FSC-78 satellite ter- minals and two nearby Ka-Stars (Ka-band Satellite Transmit and Receive System) satellite terminals.


PEO EIS’ DCATS Wideband Control product office provided the wideband control systems at the Wahiawa WSOC. These systems included a patch and


WGS IS NOT JUST A BIGGER PIPE,


BUT MORE PIPES AND THE ABILITY TO SWITCH


BETWEEN PIPES ON THE BIRD, COMING UP ON ONE FREQUENCY AND GOING DOWN ON ANOTHER.


test facility; Common Network Plan- ning Software (CNPS), which allows planning of links for maximum WGS satellite throughput; the Global Satellite Configuration Control Element, which sends payload commands to WGS sat- ellites and gets telemetry information back; the Wideband Global Spectrum Monitoring Subsystem; the Replacement Frequency Modulated Orderwire, which provides a secure interface between the WSOC and tactical satellite terminals; the Replacement Radio Frequency Interface Subsystem, which does frequency con- version between the WSOC and satellite terminals; and the Wideband SATCOM Operations Management Subsystem, which provides a workstation allowing Soldier operators to access any wideband control system, whether it controls new WGS or DSCS satellites.


INSIDE THE WSOC “CNPS has more integration with other systems and is more automated. Every- thing’s tied together; we don’t have to do work-arounds,” said Clifton.


Configuration Manager Bill Westgate, who designed the layout and supervised the installation of wideband control equipment racks and workstations, said that “certain systems had to talk to other systems, both red [unencrypted] and


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BUILT-IN BACKUP


Workers install a radome over the auxiliary satellite control terminal at the Wahiawa WSOC. (U.S. Army photo by Steve Wikoff.)


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