LEASE OR BUY?
Cross-Functional Team and the C5ISR Center; Training and Doctrine Command and numerous Army and industry stake- holders are enabling deployed Soldiers in Europe and the Pacific to experiment with evolving network technologies to success- fully operate and exchange critical data in limited and constrained network environ- ments with increasing network resiliency and security, while enhancing the network for distributed operations. Army network modernization pilots and experimentation in these areas of operations are enabling distributed command and control through tactical edge cloud access and resilient automated-primary, alternate,
continency and emergency (Auto-PACE) communications. Te more signal path- way options that exist for data to travel through, the more resilient the network becomes. A SaaMS business model could also help improve PACE communica- tions by providing access to emerging multi-orbit high throughput, low latency SATCOM services.
PILOT DESIGN Product Manager for Unified Network and Capabilities Integration’s Project Manager Tactical Network at PEO C3T, in collaboration with the U.S. Space Force, released the SaaMS pilot quote request to
industry in February with quotes due in April, and the pilot contracts awarded directly following source selection. On the current timeline, the Army will begin the six-month SaaMS pilot this summer. Te SATCOM coverage areas will include the continental U.S., the European and the Indo-Pacific areas of responsibility and will be supported by Army units during existing training exercise schedules in these locations.
Te scope of this SaaMS pilot includes six months of turnkey, end-to-end managed subscription services to support connec- tivity to commercial teleports and internet services to enhance the units’ SATCOM capability and PACE communications.
Te pilot will assess varying degrees of service models in support of a leased end-to-end global network via satellites, including tailorable features such as termi- nals, use of airtime, security compliance, logistics and repair.
At the start of service, units will receive new equipment training and use the service for six months. Te intent is not to create a separate SaaMS evaluation event, but to enable the units to use the capability as they see fit and roll it into their exist- ing training events. Once the six-month service contract is up, the leased termi- nals go back to the contractor. Tere may be opportunity to extend the SaaMS pilot contracts if warranted.
GOING GLOBAL
Staff Sgt. Jamie Ewell, assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment, assists Sgt. Diego Fonseca with operating the AN/PRC-163 radio during Sergeants Time Training in October 2022 at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. The SaaMS pilot coverage area will include European areas of responsibility and will be supported by Army units during training exercises. (Photo by Sgt. Randis Monroe, Training Support Activity Europe)
LEANING ON INDUSTRY As the Army continues to rapidly modern- ize the unified network leveraging commercially available solutions while concurrently enhancing network resil- iency and security, the service is looking to industry to not only deliver the newest innovative solutions but to provide ideas that could support this new business model. Tese solutions must support units
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