Session 1: Leveraging Strategic Capabilities for the LandWarNet

Speaker: MAJ David T. Culkin, STRATCOM/J004

This session will address how the Army’s LandWarNet will enhance STRATCOM’s ability to bring global effects consistent with it UCP missions. As the Army’s net-centric portion of the Global Information Grid, LandWarNet will enable USSTRATCOM Joint Functional Component Commanders and Joint Task Force Commanders to exchange information ubiquitously throughout the battlespace and across the breadth of USSTRATCOM’s mission areas.

Session 2: Leveraging Strategic Capabilities for the LandWarNet

Speaker: COL Robert Bruce, JFCC-SPACE

This session will address how the Army’s LandWarNet will enhance JFCC-SPACE ability to bring global effects consistent with its UCP missions.  As the Army’s net-centric portion of the Global Information Grid, LandWarNet will enable USSTRATCOM Joint Functional Component Commanders and Joint Task Force Commanders to exchange information ubiquitously throughout the battlespace and across the breadth of USSTRATCOM’s mission areas.

Session 3: Early Warning

Speaker: Mr. Mike Nadler, SMDC/ARSTRAT Future Warfare Center

This session will address how existing and emerging early warning systems are integrated in to the force and support required by LandWarNet to achieve the Army’s net-centric warfare goals. The session will focus on direct downlink and the architecture to ensure timely dissemination of the target set.  Additionally, this session will address the first detect, first report network requirements at the strategic, operational and tactical levels.

Session 4: SATCOM Support--Current/Future

Speaker: LTC Roy Snodgrass, STRATCOM/J63

This session will discuss how existing and emerging Commercial Fixed Satellite Service and Mobile Satellite Service systems will support LandWarNet to achieve the Army’s net-centric warfare goals. The session will focus on transformational technologies that are being inserted or will be inserted to enable net-centric communications across a wide variety of FSS/MSS systems.  It will also discuss how the military can improve the means by which it obtains commercial SATCOM and how it can improve its partnership with the commercial SATCOM industry. 

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Session 5: Mobile User Objective System, UHF

Speaker: MAJ Jean Buck, SMDC/ARSTRAT CIO/G-6

This session addresses the future role of Mobile User Objective System (MUOS in support of the Army and LandWarNet.  Topic will include system description, architecture, new capabilities and enhancements, operational challenges, and proposed concepts of use for mobile Army tactical forces IAW LanWarNet CONOPS.

Session 6: Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)

Speaker: COL Philip LoSchiavo, Project Manager, Navigation Systems (PEO IEW&S) Director, GPS User Equipment Group- Navstar GPS Wing

This session will discuss the evolution of today’s Global Position System and the key performance parameters requirement for the follow on GPS satellites.  Specific focus will be on advances in technology and the attributes of future systems.

Session 7: Improving Efficiency of Military Use of SATCOM

Speaker: Mr. Dan Hannan, SMDC/ARSTRAT CIO/G-6

This session will discuss the evolution from circuit-switched trunk-based architectures to more dynamic packet-switched use-and-release architectures. Each general category of SATCOM (protected, narrowband, wideband) will be analyzed to identify areas where processes can be improved. Specific focus will be on Host Nation Frequency Clearance, DoD Gateway access/authorization, Combatant Commander validation, Commercial SATCOM procurement, and SATCOM Database (SDB) requirements processes.

Session 8:  Achieving Multi-Mission Architectures

Speaker:  Mr. Shawn Spencer, Chief, STRATCOM Futures, USSTRATCOM J82

STRATCOM attributes in an operating environment transcend service capabilities - data must be transparent to all. There is a need for forces to optimize net-centric architectures for multi-use systems.  USSTRATCOM is working with its components and the other combatant commands to help identify appropriate architectures for future warfighting needs and then is advocating for them within the Joint community.