{"id":54405,"date":"2022-11-16T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-tests-anti-jamming-prototype-for-protected-satcom\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:21:54","slug":"boeing-tests-anti-jamming-prototype-for-protected-satcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-tests-anti-jamming-prototype-for-protected-satcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Tests Anti-Jamming Prototype for Protected Satcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Boeing<\/strong> said on Nov. 15 that its engineers recently tested a Protected Tactical Satellite Communications Prototype (PTS-P) for the U.S. Space Force to prevent the jamming of U.S. Department of Defense satcom, as Boeing\u2019s competition with Northrop Grumman<\/strong> on the PTS-P program continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaintaining communication with our deployed forces during hostility gives us a tactical edge on the battlefield,\u201d Justin Bruner, PTS-P program manager at U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC), said in a Boeing statement on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur adversaries are always attempting to deny our ability to communicate,\u201d he said. \u201cOn-board, autonomous, real-time nulling of jammers greatly enhances our resiliency, ensuring the United States and our allies can provide our warfighters with secure, reliable communications in a contested environment. Boeing has made significant strides in the development and execution of a nulling algorithm with flight-like firmware, demonstrating agile anti-jam capability. PTS-P and all of our Protected Anti-Jam Tactical Satcom [PATS] programs are critical to this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, Boeing said that SSC had validated the design maturity of the company\u2019s PTS-P satellite in a critical design review (CDR), which SSC said that it completed with Boeing last Dec. 17. SSC has said that the command and Northrop Grumman finished its PTS-P CDR last Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

PTS-P is to provide \u201cspace-based processing of the Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW), the U.S. military\u2019s jam-resistant waveform,\u201d Boeing said on Nov. 15. \u201cBoeing\u2019s solution uses software-defined beam-shaping to geolocate and actively suppress jamming in real-time, with thousands of data points gathered every second.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recent Boeing PTS-P hardware-software integration demonstration \u201cfeatured a number of simulations where an adversary attempted to block a user\u2019s communication, including situations with numerous simultaneous jamming attempts,\u201d the company said. \u201cIn every simulation, the Boeing-built prototype autonomously mitigated highly-dynamic jamming attempts and preserved connectivity, including situations where the user was in close proximity to the interference source.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February and March of 2020, SSC\u2019s predecessor \u2014 the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)\u2013awarded PTS-P contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing. On March 31 last year, SSC chose Northrop Grumman and Boeing to move forward in the PTS-P competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditional PTS-P hardware and software demonstrations are planned in the coming months, with host vehicle integration set to begin early next year,\u201d Boeing said on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

PTS-P test launches are to begin in 2024.<\/p>\n

This article was first published by Via Satellite sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boeing said on Nov. 15 that its engineers recently tested a Protected Tactical Satellite Communications Prototype (PTS-P) for the U.S. Space Force to prevent the jamming of U.S. Department of Defense satcom, as Boeing\u2019s competition with Northrop Grumman on the PTS-P program continues. \u201cMaintaining communication with our deployed forces during hostility gives us a tactical edge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}