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3.2f Industry Paper - CASINO – Enabling Mesh Network Solutions for Managed Data Service Flexibility Across the Wideband SATCOM Enterprise Through Modelling and Simulation

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Track 5
Thursday, November 12, 2020
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Speaker

Lt Col Timothy Trimailo
CASINO Senior Material Leader

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Abstract

Rapid technology advances are driving innovative commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems that can deliver global broadband capacity at terrestrial level costs and performance. These systems offer the military communication diversity critical to achieving resilience in contested environments, as well as satisfying the military’s requirements for high capacity data throughput, global coverage, and lower system cost. The Commercially Augmented Space Inter-Networked Operations (CASINO) program office at the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is focused on supporting various proliferated LEO technical demonstrations, performing risk reduction prototyping for proliferated LEO architectural components, and developing concepts of operations and requirements definition for future proliferated LEO operational systems. This paper provides an architectural overview of CASINO’s mesh network interface concepts, including payload-to-spacecraft, spacecraft-to-spacecraft (via OISLs), spacecraft-to-satellite ground stations, satellite ground stations-to-satellite operations center, and satellite operations center-to-payload operations center interfaces. CASINO’s modelling and simulation validates managed data service flexibility in interleaving government space systems with proliferated LEO commercial constellations. Additionally, CASINO assesses key network metrics and prioritization schemes resulting from military satellites interfacing in the commercial constellation. CASINO examines the ground system implications and network solutions pertaining to point and multi-point connectivity. We identify and address challenges associated with operating CASINO’s mesh network, to include encryption, payload tasking, efficient data routing, and managing network data. Our architecture and model supports system-level simulation activities informing DoD, the ADF, and its allies as to latencies and bandwidth availability within the constellation network.

Biography

Lt Col Timothy TRIMAILO is the Senior Material for the Blackjack/CASINO program for the United States Space Force at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. Prior to this assignment, Lt Col TRIMAILO was the Chief, Congressional Reports and Correspondence Branch, Air Force Legislative Liaison, and Executive Officer to the Director, Air Force Legislative Liaison, Washington, D.C. He was also the Program Manager, Deputy Chief, for the Multi-Intelligence Analytic Division of the National Reconnaissance Office. He spent nine years in various program management roles in Air Force Space Command and served as Executive Officer to the Commander, 386th Expeditionary Operations Group, Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait. Lt Col TRIMAILO graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2005 with a degree in Political Science and received a MBA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010. He also completed the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 2017.
Mr Gerry Jansson
Business Development
Telesat

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