Archive for the 'SAT in Iraq and Afghanistan' Category
Dec 28, 2009, post by Satellite News
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 Since 2003, we provide satellite Internet in Iraq and Afghanistan globally enabling Iraqi and Afghan citizens, businesses and remotely deployed personnel to have broadband Internet access, enterprise connectivity, VoIP and videoconferencing services at affordable costs.
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Sgt. Jeffrey Yauch, from Plover, Wis., adheres to the old Army conviction: leave it better than you found it. During a one-year deployment, the 1st Cavalry Division soldier wrote detailed technical standard operation procedures for tactical satellite hubs employing the military’s latest communications technology.
Yauch’s painstaking labors led to an unprecedented 99-percent satellite reliability rate, according to signal reports at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar. Tactical environment uptimes typically range between 90 and 95 percent, according to Chief Warrant Officer Scott Gray, 1st Cavalry Division Special Troops Battalion network technician chief.
“Our team set a new standard for maintaining a tactical satellite hub,” said Gray, who then commended the entire unit for supporting communication requirements for over 230,000 combat patrols in Iraq this year.
The 1st Cavalry Division, a rapidly deployable armored division based at Fort Hood, Texas, assumed duties as the Multi-National Division – Baghdad headquarters in January. While the main body moved into Iraq, Yauch and 18 other Soldiers formed a tactical satellite hub at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, located on the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
The team of Soldiers inherited a critical mission: set up and maintain a robust satellite hub at the Qatar base. Warfighters throughout Iraq would depend on their signal integrity for a variety of audiovisual services, such as telecommunications, video teleconferences and network access. Unfortunately, specific instructions about fielding the Army’s most recent equipment didn’t exist. Yauch resolved to fix that discrepancy, as the Soldiers went to work.
The tactical satellite document has been disseminated throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dec 11, 2009, post by Satellite News
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Since 2003, we provide satellite Internet in Iraq and Afghanistan globally enabling Iraqi and Afghan citizens, businesses and remotely deployed personnel to have broadband Internet access, enterprise connectivity, VoIP and videoconferencing services at affordable costs.
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Available at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the broadband Internet service is being delivered via the company’s new operations hub in Dubai, enabling troops to stay in touch with family and friends at home, including sending photos and videos, connecting over social networking sites and making VoIP telephone calls.
Major Nancy Bodick, stationed with the 101st, says that a system such as HughesNet offers a new level of Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) service to personnel, one which she believes will be increasingly in demand. “When you’re out in the field on an extended deployment, you’re doing practically the same thing every day, and morale starts going downhill. The military is always looking for ways to break that slide, and giving people daily access to e-mail was one of the most immediately successful actions I’ve ever seen,” she said. “I expect this to become more commonplace because you have to do things to keep people concentrating on the tasks at hand and not thinking ‘I haven’t spoken to my kids in weeks.’”
“I think this kind of connectivity, with a system actually up and running for the soldiers quickly at a minimal cost, will become the standard,” added Newsome. “Some people might say that Internet access is not a necessity, but I’m in communications and I’m here to tell you, for people stationed away from home for a year, it is a necessity.”
Dec 09, 2009, post by Satellite News
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ITT Corporation has reportedly received a contract from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division to supply 1,450 Iridium-based handheld tactical satellite communication devices for use by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to ITT officials, as per the fixed-price contract, valued at $9.7 million, the company will manufacture and deliver the Distributed Tactical Communications Systems – Radio Only (DTCS-RO) transceivers by March 2010.
Iridium Communications Inc. is a mobile satellite service (MSS) company offering coverage over the entire globe.
NSWC in June awarded Iridium a five-year development contract valued at up to $21.7 million for Phase Two of the DTCS program, also known as “Netted Iridium.”
Earlier in 2006, in Phase One, Iridium worked with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and industry partners under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to demonstrate the feasibility of using Iridium’s satellite network to support a multicast architecture for tactical voice and data communications.
The DoD tested proof-of-concept units, and has successfully deployed early prototypes and low-rate production devices in combat operations.
According to Iridium officials, under Phase Two, the company is making in-orbit upgrades to the satellites and ground infrastructure to expand the footprint of DTCS nets from 100 to 250 miles, and to permit more than 2,000 nets to be activated simultaneously on the satellite network.
The upgrades are expected to be completed by the end of December 2009.
