Employing Commercial Satellite Communications Wideband Investment Options for DOD,9780833028273

Employing Commercial Satellite Communications Wideband Investment Options for DOD

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ISBN13: 9780833028273
ISBN10: 0833028278
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-11
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary

Department of Defense decisions on the amount of communications it will own or lease will in turn affect U.S. Air Force investments in new communications satellites. The study team evaluated the effectiveness of commercial wideband satellites across several characteristics defined by the United States Space Command. the cost of buying or leasing commercial systems is then compared with the cost of buying military systems with commercial characteristics. The team found that there is a large projected gap between the military demad for communications and the capability expected from present, planned, and programmed systems.

Table of Contents

Preface iii
Figures
ix
Tables
xiii
Summary xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Acronyms xxv
Introduction
1(4)
DoD Demand for Communications and the Role of Commercial Satellites
2(1)
Meeting Military Criteria with Commercial Systems
3(1)
DoD Demand Variance and Alternative Investment Strategies
4(1)
DoD Communications Demand Projections
5(6)
Context
5(1)
DoD Projections of Future Military Demand
6(5)
Meeting Military Demand with Commercial Satellites: Contact and Evaluation
11(14)
Context: International Commercial Communications Systems
11(6)
Terrestrial Systems and Networks
11(1)
Satellite Systems and Applications
12(5)
Satellite Alternatives and Evaluation Criteria
17(8)
Can Commercial Systems Meet Military Criteria? Capacity and Coverage
25(18)
Criteria
25(1)
Capacity
26(7)
Summary Evaluation of Capacity
33(2)
Coverage
35(5)
Summary Evaluation of Coverage
40(3)
Military Theater Use of Commercial Satellites and Implications for Flexibility, Interoperability, and Access and Control
43(22)
Military Theater Use of Commercial Satellites
43(11)
Military Theater Networks
43(2)
Military Theater Interface with Commercial Systems
45(6)
Operational Concepts for Transmitting Traffic Between Military Theaters and Global Commercial Networks
51(3)
Flexibility
54(3)
Interoperability
57(3)
Access and Control
60(5)
Do Commercial Systems Meet the Military Criteria of Quality of Service and Protection?
65(20)
Quality of Service
65(4)
Protection
69(2)
Vulnerabilities of ``Minimally Protected'' Satellites to Jamming
71(4)
Concepts to Mitigate Disruption of Commercial Satellite Communications
75(8)
Evaluation Synthesis
83(2)
Prices of Commercial and Military Capacity
85(12)
Commercial Market Providers and Products
85(5)
Commercial Market Prices
90(7)
Variance in Military Communications Demand
97(8)
Demand Projections and National Security Strategy
97(2)
Assessing the Effects of Contingencies on Demand
99(6)
Investment Strategy Alternatives
105(24)
Determining an Economical Balance Between Buying and Short-Term Leasing
106(8)
Dynamic Investment Strategies
114(1)
Approach
115(14)
Baseline Results
117(5)
Effect of Order-Receipt Lag
122(4)
Effect of Discount Rate and Price Drift
126(2)
Effect of Demand Variations
128(1)
Conclusions
129(14)
Appendix
Standard Frequency Designations
133(2)
Current DoD Communications Satellites
135(2)
Graphical Method for Communications Planning Under Uncertainty
137(6)
References 143

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