Commercial SATCOM Mission Assurance

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• Commercial SATCOM Mission Assurance
• Richard H. Buenneke
• Senior Policy Analyst (The Aerospace Corporation)
• Plans and Programs Division
• richard.buenneke.ctr_at_osd.mil

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Key DoD Players

• DoD Executive Agent for Space
• (National Security Space Office)
• Protection Strategy
• SATCOM architecture

• Assistant Secretary of Defense (Network
  Information Integration)
• GIG policy
• DISA oversight

• Defense Information Systems Agency
• GIG solutions provider
• Commercial SATCOM contracting

• U.S. Strategic Command
• Global network operations
• Space operations

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Commercial hazards and threats
Natural Environment
A jammed satellite could seriously affect troop
effectiveness
Radio Frequency Interference
Cyber Attacks
Debris
Physical Attacks
Unintentional Collisions
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SATCOM Mission Assurance Best Practices

• Information sharing and analysis
• Situational awareness
• Radio frequency interference incident reporting
• Orbital position reporting
• Network disruption reporting
• Global Network Operations
• Operations management
• Cyber/network security
• Operations security
• Information assurance
• Terrestrial physical security
• Supporting infrastructures
• Personnel security

Capability and Effect
Protected Commercial SATCOM for National Security
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NC FCB Approved Capabilities for COMSATCOM
Mission Assurance

• Protection Floors
• Operations Security Clearances -- U.S. SECRET (or
  higher) clearances for staff having access to
  OPSEC sensitive data
• Satellite Operations Clearances-- Staff with U.S.
  or allied SECRET clearances who can effect
  satellite operations available at all hours
• Information Assurance -- Command uplink
  encryption compliant with DoD Directive 8581.1E
• Electromagnetic Interference/Radio Frequency
  Interference Geolocation
• Access to EMI/RFI geolocation capability (organic
  or contracted service)
• Best efforts made in response to USSTRATCOM
  geolocation requests
• Network Operations Floor
• Situational Awareness -- Real-time monitoring and
  fault reporting
• NetOps Selectable
• Situational Awareness -- Access to real-time
  spectrum monitoring data
• First Validated Set of Warfighter Requirements
  for Commercial SATCOM Services
• Sources NetCentric Functional Capabilities
  Board, 21 Feb 2006, and DISA PL8221, 30 Mar 2006

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Commercial SATCOM Mission Assurance Working Group

• Objective
• To provide an on-going forum for DoD and the
  commercial satellite communications (SATCOM)
  industry to discuss potential improvements to
  policies, programs and processes for enhanced
  mission assurance of SATCOM services used in
  support of the Department of Defense and U.S.
  national security interests
• Sustains and enhances government-industry
  partnership

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Commercial SATCOM Mission Assurance Working
Group Current Issues

• Modification of terms in DoD SATCOM service
  contracts
• US Strategic Command and NSSO contributing to
  draft language regarding Protection and NetOps
  requirements
• National Security Agency Information Assurance
  Division contributing to draft language on space
  information assurance (per DoD Directive 8581.1E)
• EMI/RFI incident response preparedness
• Cooperation on close approach/conjunction events
• Other activities
• Neighborhood watch threat updates
• Analysis of commercial elements of Transformation
  Communications Architecture v3.0
• Commercial operator participation in Schriever IV
  game

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Back-Ups
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Mission Assurance Performance Levels
Bonus level exceptional performance (long-term
enhancement of best practice)
Bonus
Objective level extends current best practice
(basis for a portion of award fees)
Objective
Threshold level derived from prevailing best
practice (preference for vendor selection)
Threshold
Unsatisfactory
Unsatisfactory shortfall from prevailing best
practice (risk indicator)
Threshold Level Calibrated to Represent Benchmark
of Prevailing Best Practices
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Information Sharing and Analysis

• Secure, automated incident reporting at primary
  and backup satellite and network operations
  centers

• Information sharing on company-specific
  susceptibilities
• Participation in DHS and DoD-sponsored threat and
  vulnerability assessments

• Membership in (or affiliation with) DHS
  Telecommunications Information Sharing and
  Analysis Center (ISAC)
• NIAP-approved COMSEC at operations centers

• No participation in sector-coordinating mechanism
• No secure communications capability

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Global SATCOM Operators
Parent Firms HQ
Ops Center
Ops Center and HQ
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SATCOM Mission Assurance Context
Telstar 12 Jamming
GAO Report on Satellite Protection
Telstar 12 Jamming
Mission Assurance Working Group
NSTISSP-12
NSTAC Satellite Task Force
DoD SATCOM Study
Homeland Security Act
National Security Space Commission
NSS Protection Study
GAO Report on SATCOM Acquisition
National Space Policy
2004
2001
2002
2003
2005
2006
2000
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A range of informal and formal responses are
possible in responses to RFI incidents

• Private sector
• Checks with ground station operators
• Collaboration with other satellite operators
  (e.g., Satellite Users Interference Reduction
  Group)
• Commercial geolocation capabilities
• Law enforcement
• Domestic actions
• International cooperation
• Diplomatic measures
• Military support
• Surveillance and reconnaissance
• Active responses

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