Civil Air Patrol

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Civil Air Patrol
Communications
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Communications Program Update

• Santa Maria, CA 2001

Colonel Bryon Brammer Major Mike Heil Major Gary
Belda
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Publications

• CAPR 100-1 Volume 1, Communications
• Pub date 1 August 1996
• Time for update
• Expect a change this fall
• CAPR 100-1 Volume 2, Communications
  Managers Handbook
• Workgroup re-established July 2001
• Expected Pub Date Spring 2002
• Interim Guidance Fall 2001

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Publications

• CAPP 214 Communications Officer
  Specialty Training Track
• New Technician, Senior, Master Tests
• Operations Online Testing!
• www.ntc.cap.gov
• Randomly generated
• Auto scoring
• Completion certified

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The 2008 Challenge!
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NARROWBAND FM

• DoD Implementation
• 1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2008

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Equipment Migration Milestones
Wideband FM
HF
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Background

• NTIA Narrowband Decision, circa 1994
• DoD Decision, 1995
• NHQ Response
• NEC First Briefed, November 94
• First POM Attempt, November 95
• Surveys, Point Papers, Briefings, etc
• Communications Equipment Rehab Project
• National Technology Center
• Communications Strategic Plan
• AF POM Process
• Requirement Validation Funding Schedule

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The News

• AF Validation
• CAP, AU, AETC, AFAB, AFB
• 24 million over 3 years
• Funding deferred until FY03
• SOW Tasking
• Develop requirements-based standards
• Table of Allowance

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New Compliant EquipmentSince 1996

• 20 HF Radios
• 20 Aircraft FM
• 6 Repeaters
• 125 VHF/FM Mobiles

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The Big News

• AF Validates Requirement!
• AF funding of our narrowband requirement
• HQ/DOK initiative since 1995
• Validated by
• CAP, AU, AETC, AFAB, AFB
• 24 million over 3 years
• Funding deferred until FY03

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• 5.3.1. Equipment/Supplies Requirements. CAP shall
  develop equipment and supplies requirement
  standards to substantiate acquisition,
  assignment, use, and disposal of equipment and
  supplies to support Air Force-assigned missions.
  The Air Force will assist CAP in this process.
  CAP will develop these requirements by 1 January
  2002, contingent upon extension of the
  Cooperative Agreement through the next Federal
  fiscal year in accordance with Article 5 of the
  Cooperative Agreement.
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• 5.3.2. Equipment/Supplies Utilization Standards.
  CAP shall establish an allowance standard for
  equipment and supplies for CAP personnel and
  organizational elements in support of Air
  Force-assigned missions. Contingent upon
  extension of the Cooperative Agreement through
  the next Federal fiscal year in accordance with
  Article 5 of the Cooperative Agreement, beginning
  in FY 03 and biennially thereafter, CAP shall
  perform an analysis of the size of its equipment
  and supplies inventory utilizing requirement
  standards established in section 5.3.1. and
  adjust the disposition of its equipment and
  supplies inventory accordingly.
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• 5.3.3. Equipment Maintenance and Modernization.
  CAP shall establish and operate programs for the
  maintenance of CAP equipment used in support of
  Air Force-assigned missions. CAP shall establish
  and operate programs for equipment maintenance
  used in support of Air Force-assigned missions.

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• 5.3.1. Equipment/Supplies Requirements. CAP shall
  develop equipment and supplies requirement
  standards to substantiate acquisition,
  assignment, use, and disposal of equipment and
  supplies to support Air Force-assigned missions.
  The Air Force will assist CAP in this process.
  CAP will develop these requirements by 1 January
  2002, contingent upon extension of the
  Cooperative Agreement through the next Federal
  fiscal year in accordance with Article 5 of the
  Cooperative Agreement.
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• 5.3.2. Equipment/Supplies Utilization Standards.
  CAP shall establish an allowance standard for
  equipment and supplies for CAP personnel and
  organizational elements in support of Air
  Force-assigned missions. Contingent upon
  extension of the Cooperative Agreement through
  the next Federal fiscal year in accordance with
  Article 5 of the Cooperative Agreement, beginning
  in FY 03 and biennially thereafter, CAP shall
  perform an analysis of the size of its equipment
  and supplies inventory utilizing requirement
  standards established in section 5.3.1. and
  adjust the disposition of its equipment and
  supplies inventory accordingly.
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• 5.3.3. Equipment Maintenance and Modernization.
  CAP shall establish and operate programs for the
  maintenance of CAP equipment used in support of
  Air Force-assigned missions. CAP shall establish
  and operate programs for equipment maintenance
  used in support of Air Force-assigned missions.

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The Task

• Develop a requirements-based allowance standard
  to substantiate acquisition, distribution,
  assignment, use, and disposal of communications
  equipment

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Communications Analysis Project

• Working Group/Sub Groups
• Customers and communications managers
• Field input/validation in both arenas
• Staff Coordination
• Command endorsement
• Formal submission to AF
• Required Completion Date March 2002

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Todays Task

• Determine Requirement
• Develop Solution
• Validate Solution
• Implement Solution
• Monitor Feedback
• Revise as Necessary

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1. Determine Requirement

• Blank slate starting point
• Nodal Analysis
• Who needs to communicate with who?
• Over what distances?
• Under what conditions?
• Within what time criteria?
• Record or voice?
• One way or two way?
• Point to point or point to multi-point?

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2. Develop Solutions

• Solution for each link
• Wired or wireless?
• Internal or outsourced?
• Bundled or independent?

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Determine Requirement

• Command Requirements
• Day to day administrative communications
• Questionable AF mission tie
• May be a corporate support requirement
• Emergency Services Analysis
• Three levels or Mission Profiles
• Small Mission
• Moderate Mission
• Large Mission

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Small Mission

• Typical ELT Search
• 90 of our ES missions
• Duration
• Assets
• 1 2 Urban DF Teams
• 1 Aircraft
• 1 MC working from home
• Non-stressed communications environment
• Normal public infrastructure available
• Principal communications variable
• Distance (0 50 miles vrs. 100 miles)

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Moderate Mission

• Expanding SAR or small DR operation
• Only 8 of our missions
• Duration Usually 6 48 hours
• Assets
• 2 3 full ground teams
• 2 3 aircraft
• Single incident command post/base of operations
• IC and staff of 6 9
• Communications environment
• SAR Usually non-stressed
• DR Usually stressed
• Area of Operations (AOR)
• SAR Expanding. Could be several hundred miles
• DR Varies from local to several hundred miles

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Large Mission

• Classic Mission Base
• Only 2 of our missions
• Duration 48 hours to as much as 14 days
• Assets
• 6 - 10 full ground teams
• 10 15 aircraft
• Full ICP and base of operations (mission base)
• Frequently with detached operating locations (sub
  base)
• IC and staff of 30 - 50
• Communications environment
• SAR Usually non-stressed
• DR Usually stressed
• Area of Operations (AOR)
• Multi-state/multi-agency

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ES Mission Analysis

• Three levels or Mission Profiles
• Small Mission
• 90 of our missions
• Typically ELT searches
• Varying size AOR
• Moderate Mission
• 8 of our missions
• Typically an expanding search or small DR
  operation
• As much as state-wide AOR
• Large Mission
• 2 of our missions
• Classic full mission base
• Usually multi-agency SAR or DR
• In SAR missions normally a large multi-state AOR
• In DR missions normally a confined AOR

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Nodal Analysis

• ES Nodes
• Urban DF Teams
• Full Ground Teams
• Internal/External
• Mission Aircraft
• Lone IC
• Small ICP
• Internal/External
• Full ICP
• Internal/External
• Sub Base
• Internal/External

• Support Nodes
• Comm Relay Points
• Comm Van
• Fixed Base Station (NCS)
• Hi Bird

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Nodal Analysis
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Communications Equipment Management System (CEMS)
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Equipment Management

• Communications Equipment Management System (CEMS)
• On line tool for comm managers
• Cradle to grave equipment tracking
• Complete Life-Cycle Management of comm equipment
• Beta testing in progress
• Implementation date 1 October 2001
• DC responsible for comm equipment

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Things to Watch For
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HF Email

• East Coast Gateway on the air
• Testing between CAP and DoD elements
• National Emergency Services Academy (NESA)
• AF begins worldwide installation this fall
• AF Scope Command
• CAP invited to join AF infrastructure
• Nine client stations
• More may follow
• Nation/wing funding
• Registration required

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And just when you thought it was safe to go back
in the water.
AOPA Website. 10 August 2001. FAA UPGRADES
ATC RADIOS AOPA is watching closely the FAA's
upgrading of radios used for air traffic control.
Included in the upgrade are options to "go
digital" or split existing voice radio
frequencies into 8.33 kHz channels. This is the
first step toward a planned change in
communication radios that will eventually affect
all aircraft. The FAA still plans to implement a
digital radio system (dubbed Nexcom) that has
both voice and ATC datalink capabilities late in
this decade. Although most GA pilots won't be
expected to reequip until sometime beyond 2010
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Contact Info

• CAWG www.cawg.cap.gov
• Colonel Bryon Brammer, Director of Communications
• Major Mike Heil, Deputy Director North
• Major Gary Belda, Deputy Director South
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email blbrammer_at_cawg.cap.gov
• mheil_at_cawg.cap.gov
• cgbelda_at_cawg.cap.gov
• bsmidth_at_cawg.cap.gov

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The President can make you a general, but only
communications can make you a commander
General Curtis E. LeMay
Questions?
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Civil Air Patrol
Communications