ADAPTING EXPERIMENTATION AND TESTING
hardware to be surged for deployments or humanitarian assis- tance and disaster relief missions.
Te SaaMS pilot encompasses commercial capability in both low Earth orbit and the traditional geosynchronous Earth orbit constellations. Leveraging SaaMS’ multivendor, multi-orbit SATCOM capability could fuel the Army’s efforts to enhance network resiliency through transport diversity, especially in denied, degraded, intermittent and limited-bandwidth environ- ments. Te intent of the pilot is not to create a separate SaaMS evaluation event, but to enable operational units to use the differ- ent service and equipment sets to best suit their individual needs and roll them into their existing training events through fiscal year 2024.
BASE OF OPERATIONS
Soldiers from the 86th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 11th Corps Signal Brigade (CSB) and 11th CSB Network Operations take part in new equipment training in February 2023 at Camp Pendleton, California, as part of the Army’s SaaMS pilot program. (Photo by CW3 Nathan Paquette and CW2 Tim Gass, 11th CSB)
During the pilot, the Army is assessing varying degrees of leased end-to-end service models with tailorable features that include satellite terminals, bandwidth capacity, security compliance, logistics and repair.
Te pilot also encompasses different scenarios, such as using SaaMS to provide a stopgap for maintenance issues due to obsolescence or to rapidly deliver the “latest and greatest” in commercial technology to an Army National Guard unit before a deployment, said Seth Chouinard, SaaMS project lead for Prod- uct Manager for Unified Network Capabilities and Integration.
Alongside the pilot, the Army is accelerating the potential use of an “as a service” business model by concurrently using lessons learned from other DOD efforts in the managed services realm, including those conducted by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Similarly, the Army is looking into the potential of leveraging a commercial “as a service” model for tactical radios, releasing a request for information to industry to gain further insight. To further examine the pros and cons of the SaaMS model, the Army is working with Johns Hopkins University to conduct a SaaMS business case and cost analysis to aid in future lease-versus-buy decisions.
LINKED UP
PEO C3T’s Project Manager for Tactical Network facilitated new equipment training for the Virginia Army National Guard’s 529th Sustainment Support Battalion in February 2024 in North Chesterfield, Virginia. Feedback from the session will help shape Army HT/LL requirements and drive decisions on procurement and implementation. (Photo by Amy Walker, PEO C3T Public Affairs)
—LT. COL. MARK SCOTT & AMY WALKER
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