8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:20 Keynote: Upgrade And Integration Of Communications Assets

• SATCOM and service acquisition support
• Efficient application, planning, programming, budgeting and execution of resources
• Engaging with senior leaders in government and industry to facilitate strategic application of assets and services in support of the warfighter

Bruce Bennett, SES
Program Executive Officer
SATCOM, Teleport and Services, Networks and Information Integration DISA

9:05 Keynote: Space Force Enhancement

• Capabilities and limitations of communications satellites
• Requirements of next generation systems to achieve capabilities envisioned on the future battlefield
• Provision of transformational capabilities to enable information superiority and net-enabled operations

Colonel Robert Uemura, USAF
Chief, Space Operations Division

10:35 SATCOM At Work: Integration Of Intelligence, Surveillance, Observations And Navigation Systems

• Obtaining an accessible common maritime awareness picture
• Compiling and fusing inputs from multiple data sources that contain relevant maritime information on vessels, people, cargo and infrastructure
• Ensuring successful information sharing

11:20 Commercial Satellite Communications

• Government and military satellite applications
• How the government uses commercial satellites for homeland security and military needs
• Buyer vs. seller interaction

Sonny Marshall
President & CEO, Marshall Communications
Former Member of the Joint Staff and Associate Deputy Director, DISA/DCEC

1:20 Bandwidth Efficiency: Improving Bandwidth Efficiency For Satellite-Based IP Networks

• New and evolving techniques for increasing bits/hertz on satellite links
• Use of TDMA to support IP statistical multiplexing
• Reducing IP overhead on constrained links
• Performance enhancing proxies
• Data compression at the application level

Burt Liebowitz
Principal Engineer
MITRE

2:50 Enhanced Network Communications: Supporting Forces On-The-Move With 3G And Satellite Communications

• Overview of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Program
• Improving ground communications capabilities for U.S. forces on the move by adapting a commercial 3G wideband cellular phone network with geosynchronous satellites

Wayne Curles
Program Manager, Communications Satellite Program Office, Space Systems PEO
US Navy

3:30 Enhanced Network Communications: Satellite Networking For Naval Battlegroups

SATCOM-on-the-move for Ground Forces

• ONR programs for the Marine Corps
• CERDEC programs for the Army
• Operations and certifications for WGS

Michael Rupar
Section Head / Electronics Engineer, Information Technology Division
Naval Research Laboratory