SPACE TO GROW


Control product leaders will continue to provide more capabilities, allowing operators to tap the increased potential of WGS satellites.


ACCESS POINTS


The new WSOC at Wahiawa, HI, hosts workstations, such as those shown here, allowing Sol- dier operators to access any Wideband Global SATCOM wideband control systems along with Defense Satellite Communications System legacy wideband control systems. (U.S. Army photo by Rob Lorkiewicz.)


black [encrypted], so I had to locate them to facilitate that.”


The new 28,244 square-foot Wahiawa WSOC employs a standardized floor plan that allows sufficient space for satellite operations; equipment areas; offices; train- ing, conference, fitness, and supply rooms; and even rooms set aside to support future missions. The facility is nearly three times the size of the 9,600-square-foot WSOC at Camp Roberts that it replaced.


“It’s an orders-of-magnitude differ- ence,” said Steve Wikoff, USASMDC/ ARSTRAT Operations Analyst at the Wahiawa WSOC. “The operations floor at Roberts was pretty cramped. We couldn’t get any more equipment in there.”


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Office (CCU/SPO) was in sequencing deliveries of equipment, furniture, and other materiel from multiple project man- agers. “As much as possible, we sequenced it so that materiel was shipped directly to the site and then staged in the proper area within the building, without having to be sent to a warehouse,” said Ray Lorenzo, CCU/SPO Project Leader.


“It was a pretty compressed schedule to meet the IOC [initial operational capability] date of December 23,” said Cartagena.


MODERNIZATION MODEL Formica said that the layout of the Wahiawa WSOC will serve as a tem- plate for modernization of WSOCs at Forts Detrick and Meade, MD, and Landstuhl, Germany, over the next three years. Meanwhile, DCATS’ Wideband


Morrissey said that, as funding permits over the next few years, DCATS’ Wide- band Control product office plans to provide additional wideband control systems, such as the Remote Monitoring and Control Element, which will allow remote control of WGS satellite pay- loads and remote spectrum monitoring of satellite terminals not co-located at the WSOC; the Power Control Management Subsystem, which will measure the qual- ity of signal strength and automatically increase the power, as needed, when the signal is attenuated due to atmospheric conditions; the Joint Management and Operations Subsystem, which will pro- vide situational awareness of Internet protocol over SATCOM for WGS; and the Wideband SATCOM Trend Analy- sis and Anomaly Resolution Subsystem, which will provide situational awareness of all networks over WGS.


“Our goal is to continue to provide USASMDC/ARSTRAT with the wide- band control tools required to perform their payload configuration and control mission,” said McGarvey.


“This is no small task, and our Soldiers and civilians take pride in their ability to maintain that lifeline that secure commu- nications bring to those who are serving in harm’s way,” said Formica.


DERALD FRANKLIN is the Project Leader for Satellite Spectrum Monitoring Systems for the DCATS project office, as matrix support from the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Research, Development, and Engi- neering Center. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Thomas Edison State College.


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