Commercial SATCOM in support of protected connectivity for the Warfighter and First Responder

For more than 40 years, military strategists and astro-politicians have studied evolutionary and revolutionary needs for the protection of commercial SATCOM. In light of many valid reasons to protect user access to jamming, interference, direction finding, interception, intrusion, physical attack and nuclear effects, it is also necessary to recognize information warfare threats and vulnerabilities, as well as collaborative and distributed means for commercial systems to assist government and military systems under attack. In an ever-expanding mobile wireless smart phone and M2M infrastructure, as well as in the integration of broadband transport services and cloud computing, protection and security are a shared responsibility and liability across both government and commercial sectors. Commercial narrowband machine-to-machine (M2M) highlights the ability to offer four core emerging network services which will be further defined in this document: (1) Out-of-Band C2 for critical or complex platforms. (2) Cyber inoculation during network attack (3) Non-internet critical thread extranet communications and social tool integration. (4) Position, location, identity and timing restoral during network failure.