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New TS2 project for the US Army in Afghanistan
TS2 Satellite Technologies has completed the tender documentation for JCC-I/A and a satellite network project for the Marines new bases in Afghanistan. The government contract concerns establishing and maintaining full communication in new locations for two years for all soldiers stationed there. The USA are going to transfer 4.5 thousand Marines from Iraq to Afghanistan as early as at the beginning of 2009.
President Bush has obtained the necessary recommendations from the most important representatives of civil and military authorities in the Pentagon. An official decision should be taken soon. Future actions concern a transfer of an army brigade and a Marines battalion in a total number of 4500 soldiers. According to military commanders, to provide successful protection against the Taliban actions the needs are even greater.
“We were among the first telecommunications operators in the satellite technology in the territory of Iraq and Afghanistan and as such we have enjoyed a successful cooperation with the US Army for several years now. The Afghan project could be another big government order in the company’s history” – says Marcin Frąckiewicz, CEO of the TS2 Technologie Satelitarne. “Our military network in Iraq has already over 10 thousand regular users for everyday broadband connections” – adds Frąckiewicz.
TS2 specializes in providing global satellite communication services in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure. Its basic transmission medium is a two way transfer of data which provides not only the Internet access and transfer of information within the network but also voice communications. This type of services is very often used by defense industries, Special Forces and Army.
TS2 communication among the bases is possible thanks to the simultaneous lease of bands on the Intelsat 10-02, Intelsat 901 and ArabSat Badr-4 satellites whose coverage enables configuration of connections between any place in Europe, Middle East and Southwest Asia. TS2 additionally equips its customers with Thuraya and Iridium satellite telephones which are often the only means of communication in this region of the world.
TS2 provides telecommunication services for the United States Marine Corps as well as for the Iraq police training institutions in the following locations: West Ramadi, Warrar, Tal-Aswad, Saqlawiyah / Saqlawiah, Rutbah, Rumanah, Ramadi District HQ, Qatanna, Mulaab, Kubaisa, Khaladiah, Karmah, Jazeera, Hit, Haqlaniyah, Hamdiyah, Habbaniyah, Forsan, Ferris, East Ramadi, Barwannah, Anah, Ameriayah and Al Qaim.
The provider of the new network for the Marines is to be selected by the end of 2008 within the applicable procedures of JCC-I/A (the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan).
The most significant clients of TS2 Technologie Satelitarne include: the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Australian Defense Forces (ADF), the Polish Navy Headquarters, GROM Operational Mobile Reaction Group, the First Special Commando Regiment from Lubliniec, Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Halliburton Energy Services, KBR, General Dynamics Information Technology, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, US Naval Research Laboratory, ITT Corporation Aerospace / Communications Division, Technest Holdings / EOIR Technologies, North Eastern Aeronautical Company (Neany), EchoStorm Worldwide, Jorge Scientific Corporation, Erinys International and Aegis Iraq.
Largest satellite military networks are in:
FOB Iskan, Iskandariyah
FOB Orgun-E
Camp Taji / FOB Bennett
FOB Hammer / Butler Range Complex
Camp Striker BIAP / Baghdad Airport
COB / FOB Speicher / Tikrit Airbase / FOB Summerall
Camp Habbaniyah
LSA Adder / Tallil Air Base
PRT Sharana
Kandahar Airfield / Tarin Kowt
Camp Ramadi / Camp Blue Diamond / Camp Junction City
Camp / FOB Warrior / Kirkuk
FOB Bagram / Bagram Air Base
FOB Waza Khwa
FOB Normandy
Al Taqaddum Airbase
Camp Echo / Ad Diwaniyah
Camp / FOB Bucca / Umm Qasr
FOB Marez / Mosul / LSA Diamondback
Camp Slayer / Baghdad Airport
International Zone / Baghdad
Camp Liberty / Baghdad
Camp Victory South
FOB Sykes
LSA Anaconda / Balad Airbase / FOB Paliwoda
FOB Endurance, Q-West / Qayyarah Airfield West
Camp Fallujah
FOB Falcon, Baghdad / Rasheed Airbase
Camp Al Asad
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
CSC Scania
FOB Solerno / FOB Salerno
Al Kasik Military Base
Camp Duke / Najaf
FOB Prosperity
Supported military locations in Iraq
Supported military locations in Afgahanistan
TS2 News of 21.05.2007 Internet for the US Army soldiers in Iraq
Tariam Delivers Free Satellite Broadband Hardware for US & NATO Forces Personnel
Global Satellite Broadband ISP Tariam has launched an innovative new satellite broadband service aimed specifically at supporting serving NATO and ISAF forces and their subcontractors operating in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The service, dubbed ‘inet’, has been put together to facilitate welfare communications for personnel stationed thousands of miles from friends and family with no way of communicating with home.
Tariam’s Military and Aerospace Director, Selwyn Petterson, informed, inet is a revolutionary offering because we’re actually giving away the hardware with the service. We’ve constructed the product to make it as easy and quick as possible for these users to get online. We’ve got large stocks of hardware sitting in the appropriate countries to minimise delays in getting the equipment to where it’s needed most. We’re confident that we’ve got enough equipment to offer the deal to ALL serving NATO and ISAF personnel, and we can deliver service on a variety of satellites, wherever our forces are working.
“Most people don’t realise that the ordinary troops and serving personnel rarely have access to the internet in many of these places because it simply doesn’t exist there. We’ve made a name for ourselves supplying communications for the military, but inet is aimed really at the ordinary soldiers and airmen.
The Tariam inet kit includes everything the user with a PC needs to get online quickly enabling them to exchange emails, make and receive voice calls, browse the internet and even use a webcam to see their loved ones. There’s a list of bases and camps that can use the service on Tariam’s website, but all of Afghanistan and Iraq are well covered.
Selwyn said also, “The core of the solution is hardware that’s been extensively tested and is well proven in a variety of environments, but the key thing is that troops often transit through camps or bases and are only around for fairly short periods before moving on. The way the product works allows groups of individuals to club together to get a location online with no capital outlay and the users can then just pay as they come and go.
More information on Tariam inet is available now by browsing the Tariam website and clicking Afghanistan & Iraq.
US soldiers in Afghanistan offered Internet service
Soldiers serving in Afghanistan are being offered an Internet service primarily aimed at companies in Asia. The new service offers high-speed Internet access with out the need for phone lines, cable or dial-up modem.
TS2 Satellite Technologies company is using satellites to power their Internet service.
‘We provide secure and encrypted satellite connections particularly for the military sector, for any military units, literally in any part of the world, on the national firing ground and during all international trainings.’ – said Marcin Frąckiewicz, CEO of TS2. He also added: ‘We have mobile and stationary solutions dedicated to work in difficult conditions’.
For soldiers deployed to the war zones this service can allow for communications back home. Many of the soldiers arrive in Afghanistan and Iraq with their own lap top hoping to stay in contact with loved ones. The troops can connect with the service when they are in their barracks.
Not everyone though in the service is just using the Internet to stay close with family some are using it to blog and stay in touch with their business associates in the US.
Having that connect with family and those at home have upped the morale of the troops.