{"id":55640,"date":"2022-04-01T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/5g-from-space-offers-potential-benefits-for-us-forces-but-spectrum-access-and-cybersecurity-present-challenges\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:54:09","slug":"5g-from-space-offers-potential-benefits-for-us-forces-but-spectrum-access-and-cybersecurity-present-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/5g-from-space-offers-potential-benefits-for-us-forces-but-spectrum-access-and-cybersecurity-present-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"5G from Space Offers Potential Benefits for US Forces, but Spectrum Access and Cybersecurity Present Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, the New York Times quoted Lt. Yevgeny Yarantsev, a Ukrainian officer leading his troops in Kyiv against Russian forces. Yarantsev told the Times that his soldiers \u201cwere more comfortable being able to garrison in buildings than in fields or forests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve noticed something about war,\u201d he said, according to the Times. \u201cSoldiers want to be somewhere where cell phones work and where there is internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DAvuTaMbTT2SzvXDdz6p_VS_ShowDaily20202220DGTL_Wrap20Up-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 120px; height: auto;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DAvuTaMbTT2SzvXDdz6p_VS_ShowDaily20202220DGTL_Wrap20Up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DAvuTaMbTT2SzvXDdz6p_VS_ShowDaily20202220DGTL_Wrap20Up-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DAvuTaMbTT2SzvXDdz6p_VS_ShowDaily20202220DGTL_Wrap20Up-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DAvuTaMbTT2SzvXDdz6p_VS_ShowDaily20202220DGTL_Wrap20Up.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fs-5 mt-0\">Explore the Show Daily 2022 Wrap Up Issue<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-0 fs-smaller text-balance\">Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-primary\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"offcanvas\" data-bs-target=\"#offcanvasMENU\" aria-controls=\"offcanvasExample\" aria-label=\"button\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView More <i class=\"bi bi-arrow-right-circle\"><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>A \u201c5G in Space\u201d panel at the SATELLITE 2022 conference on March 23 suggested that 5G from space may help the U.S. military operate anywhere, allow the dispersion of tactical operations centers, and help prevent adversaries from interfering with or shutting down U.S. military communications.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s \u201cOperate Through\u201d initiative under the Directorate for Defense Research and Engineering seeks industry help in U.S. military forces being able to use different networks for 5G.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Army Corps of Engineers can build a bridge across a river anywhere in the world, but that is not typically where we start operationally,\u201d Daniel Massey, program lead in the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering for the Operate Through effort under DoD\u2019s \u201c5G to NextG Initiative,\u201d told the panel. \u201cWe don\u2019t go in and say, \u2018First we need to build a road and rail infrastructure, a bridge infrastructure.\u2019 We try to leverage what\u2019s in place. So what about comms?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a6b5751efc6f;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a6b5751efc6f = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a6b5751efc71').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a6b5751efc71'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The December 2020 DoD 5G strategy implementation plan laid out four categories of network infrastructure under the \u201cOperate Through\u201d concept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first and least challenging category, DoD must be able to conduct sustained operations on the existing U.S. telecommunications infrastructure,\u201d the plan said. \u201cIn the second category, DoD operations in coalition partner countries must be able to operate through the coalition partner\u2019s national telecommunication infrastructure. In both the U.S. and coalition examples, long term bases and spontaneous operations both could benefit from access to a nation\u2019s existing telecommunications infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a third and more challenging scenario, DoD may need to operate over \u2018gray zone\u2019 network infrastructure that is influenced or even controlled by organizations that are not compatible with DoD mission objectives,\u201d per the plan. \u201cFinally, DoD operates in contested areas. In all four environments (U.S., coalition, gray, and contested), use of the native 5G infrastructure can expand and enhance military options across the full range of military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperate Through\u201d seeks industry, \u201czero trust\u201d communications solutions that address three environments: a friendly or unfriendly \u201cblack box\u201d network in which military forces are users on the edge of the network; military forces bringing forward their own network; or a hybrid approach of the other two environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat soldier in the field, that 19-year-old, is not used to being away from their phone for more than an hour so we want to make sure we have access to that connectivity in a terrestrial or non-terrestrial way,\u201d Massey said.<\/p>\n<p>Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are on DoD\u2019s wish list for possible future conflicts in potentially communications-compromised, far-flung locations, such as U.S. Africa Command and Indo-Pacific Command.<\/p>\n<p>The big challenges ahead for U.S. military terrestrial and space-based 5G are cybersecurity and reducing possible interference among systems through allowing them to use different bands and parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Software is key for spectrum sharing. For example, the planned OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation will use the Ku-band, traditionally used by Geostationary (GEO) satellites, but software allows for spectrum deconfliction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magic is software,\u201d said Rajeev Gopal, vice president of Hughes Network Systems\u2019 [SATS] defense and intelligence systems division. \u201cIf you look at it from a software perspective, most of the satellites, most of these towers, we know their position, even if they\u2019re moving so you can put the routes in software so you can positively share the spectrum without interfering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a6b5751f012a;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a6b5751f012a = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a6b5751f012b').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a6b5751f012b'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Crucial to future 5G efforts will be \u201cmaking sure you can roam, whether it\u2019s a terrestrial network into a space-based network into somebody else\u2019s space-based network, across bands, across orbits\u201d and \u201cnot having five terminals, each performing one mission,\u201d Don Claussen, the vice president of business development at Intelsat General told the panel.<\/p>\n<p>At the military small unit level, easing the provision of voice communications over small, handheld devices will likely be key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the edge, what\u2019s more important in the fight is the voice capability,\u201d said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of Army Futures Command\u2019s network cross-functional team. \u201cWhen you have troops in contact, they depend heavily on the radio that\u2019s on their hip. If we\u2019re gonna go to the cell phone as an end device, I want to know, \u2018How do we embed voice capability?\u2019 Collaboration is going to be needed when you\u2019re under close fire in combat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claussen said that to allow such voice communications for units on the move, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to be able to take advantage of all constellations [in] LEO, MEO, and GEO so that you can lower latency first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond is the edge device,\u201d he said. \u201cI think a lot in the industry are not going to want to hear that we\u2019re moving to 3GPP [5G] standards because the chip sets are produced in mass quantities, and they\u2019re cheaper so it\u2019s going to drive down the cost of the edge terminal so now we can proliferate those end quantities to the masses and ensure that they can communicate the way they need to. The challenge is gonna be, \u2018How do I create a device that\u2019s small enough that can be moved around, that can move across bands and across orbits?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rey said that \u201cwe have to reduce complexity at the transport layer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe example I use is before, we would drive down I-95 and had to pay tolls, and the traffic was backed up,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s how our transport [layer] is today. But today when you go down I-95, you have EZ Pass, pictures of your license plate, and data is moving back and forth. Nobody\u2019s holding up traffic. That\u2019s what we need. That\u2019s attribute-based access control. That\u2019s identity management in defense. That\u2019s using transport really in the manner that we should use it.\u201d <strong>VS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published by Via Satellite sister publication Defense Daily. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>,<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">In This Issue<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 454:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/94Ve5l7GR8CWNHGhUtNM_Launch-300x200.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/94Ve5l7GR8CWNHGhUtNM_Launch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/94Ve5l7GR8CWNHGhUtNM_Launch-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/94Ve5l7GR8CWNHGhUtNM_Launch-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/94Ve5l7GR8CWNHGhUtNM_Launch.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"fs-4 w-100 line-clamp-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tMajor Launchers Look Toward the \u2018New Era\u2019 of Space Launch<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p><!-- .post-snippet --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-3 d-block d-md-none\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 453:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dmjVR5eQIOQ22AzIF2z7_Manufaturing-300x200.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dmjVR5eQIOQ22AzIF2z7_Manufaturing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dmjVR5eQIOQ22AzIF2z7_Manufaturing-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dmjVR5eQIOQ22AzIF2z7_Manufaturing-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dmjVR5eQIOQ22AzIF2z7_Manufaturing.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"fs-4 w-100 line-clamp-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tManufacturers Reflect on Supply Chain Issues and the Software-Defined Future<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p><!-- .post-snippet --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 456:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gSmzHFLpTuqn75tSYZnn_Robotics-300x200.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gSmzHFLpTuqn75tSYZnn_Robotics-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gSmzHFLpTuqn75tSYZnn_Robotics-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gSmzHFLpTuqn75tSYZnn_Robotics-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gSmzHFLpTuqn75tSYZnn_Robotics.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"fs-4 w-100 line-clamp-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tRobotics Aim to Enable a More Profitable and Sustainable Future in Space<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p><!-- .post-snippet --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-3 d-block d-md-none\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 457:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/56FPWrOjR5O3ibjYGwtq_Sustainability-300x200.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/56FPWrOjR5O3ibjYGwtq_Sustainability-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/56FPWrOjR5O3ibjYGwtq_Sustainability-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/56FPWrOjR5O3ibjYGwtq_Sustainability-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/56FPWrOjR5O3ibjYGwtq_Sustainability.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"fs-4 w-100 line-clamp-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tSpace Sustainability is Still Seen as a Back-Burner Issue<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p><!-- .post-snippet --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, the New York Times quoted Lt. 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