INVESTMENT COMPONENT
Modernization
Recapitalization
Maintenance
Provides a worldwide commercial satellite communications network, engineering services, integrated logistics support, infrastructure, and portable remote terminal units in support of Army Combat Service Support (CSS) logistics management information systems operating from garrison or while deployed.
Combat Service Support Communications (CSS Comms) includes the Combat Service Support Automated Information Systems Interface (CAISI) and the CSS Satellite Communications (CSS SATCOM) system. CAISI allows current/emerging battlefield CSS automation devices to electronically exchange information via tactical networks. CAISI provides unit commanders and logistics managers an interface device to support CSS doctrine for full-spectrum operations. CAISI allows deployed Soldiers to connect CSS automation devices to a secure wireless network and electronically exchange information via tactical or commercial communications. CAISI employs a deployable wireless LAN infrastructure linking Army logistics information system computers in a seven square-kilometer area. It is certified in accordance with Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 Level 2. CSS SATCOM includes commercial-off-the-shelf, Ku-band, auto-acquire satellite terminals, called CSS Very Small Aperture Terminals (CSS VSATs), repackaged in fly-away transit cases, along with a fixed infrastructure of four primary and three Contingency Operating Point teleports and highspeed terrestrial links that provide a highly effective, easy-to-use, transportable, SATCOM-based solution to CSS nodes. CSS SATCOM supports information exchange up to the sensitive information level, is rapidly deployable anywhere in the world and is fully integrated into the Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET). CSS SATCOM eliminates the often dangerous need for Soldiers to hand-deliver requisitions via convoys in combat areas.
In this Publication
Global Combat Support System–Army (GCSS-Army)
ACQUISITION PHASE
Technology Development
Engineering & Manufacturing Development
Production & Deployment
Operations & Support
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Equipment:
Telos Corp. (Ashburn, VA)
LTI DataComm Inc. (Reston, VA)
Juniper Networks (Herndon, VA)
L-3 Global Communications Solutions Inc. (Victor, NY)
Artel Inc. (Reston, VA)
Inmarsat Government (Herndon, VA)
Project support/training:
Systems Technologies (Systek) Inc. (West Long Branch, NJ)
Tobyhanna Army Depot (Tobyhanna, PA)
Software Engineering Center-Belvoir (SEC-B) (Fort Belvoir, VA)
U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC) (Fort Huachuca, AZ)
Defense Information System Agency (DISA) Satellite Transmission Services-Global NETCOM (Fort Huachuca, AZ)
