Paige R. Atkins

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Defense Information Systems Agency
A Combat Support Agency
Defense Spectrum Organization

• Paige R. Atkins
• Director
• 7 August 2009

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Defense Spectrum Environment
Integrated space, air and ground systems
Integrated decision- making
Operational superiority
Spectrum enables net-centric operations and
warfare
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DoD Spectrum Challenges
OPERATIONAL Net-centric joint operations

• Net-Centric Warfare
• Higher bandwidths
• Greater mobility
• Greater agility
• Higher tempo

TECHNICAL Five decades of rapid wireless
technology development

• Turbo Codes
• 2G
• IMT-2000
• MIMO
• IEEE 802.11

• Fiber
• TCP/IP
• OFDM
• Adaptive Equalizers

• Growing spectrum
• requirements
• Encroachment on
• military bands

• Cellular Deployment
• Trellis Code Modulation

• 3G/4G
• WiMAX
• SDR
• WNaN

• Satellite Comms
• Conv. Codes
• Trunked Radio
• Laser

Wireless Comms Emerges
Telegraph
Telephone
Broadcast
1844
1876
1900
1920
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
REGULATORY Increased need for more spectrum,
harmonization, etc

• Demands for sharing and
• harmonization
• Host nation sovereignty
• World Radiocommunication
• Conference (WRC) impact

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Spectrum Management Transformation
Cognitive Self-synching Spectrum Use
Transition Architecture 3
Bandwidth on Demand
Transition Architecture 2
Baseline Architecture
Transition Architecture 1
Net-centric Spectrum Mgt / Shared Situational
Awareness
Limited Adaptive SM /Situational Awareness
SM Web Services
Standardized/Shared Data Web Applications /
Initial Web Services
Stove-piped Systems Disparate Databases
Man-in-the-Loop
Defense Spectrum Management Architecture
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Organization Chart
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and
Information Integration and DoD Chief Information
Officer
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command,
Control, Communications, Space and Spectrum
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Operational Guidance
Policy Guidance
Spectrum and Communications Policy
Joint Staff J65
Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO)
MILDEPS
COCOMS
Strategic Planning Office (SPO)
Joint Spectrum Center (JSC)
Business Management Office
GEMSIS Program Mgt Office
GLOBAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM INFORMATION
SYSTEM
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On the Horizon for DSO
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