DoD and Allies Need Greater Network Security and Agility to the Tactical Edge

The Department of Defense works closely with allies around the world to plan and execute critical missions, including emergency response, search and rescue, and border protection. For seamless coordination that enables mission success, communications technologies need to work together, no matter what the location. Hughes has supported U.S. military users by adapting commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) and other wireless and terrestrial technologies to meet specific requirements and help achieve mission goals. These same technologies are now needed for countries across Europe and Asia to support their national security and global security. Hughes met with many military teams at the recent Defence in Space Conference in London to better understand government needs.

Your Trusted Communications Partner for U.S. and Allied Military Missions

The Hughes team recently attended the Defence in Space Conference (DiSC) in London to meet with military leaders from many countries in Europe and discuss the need for more resilient communications. These governments know they must ensure stronger regional security. To achieve this, governments are building sovereign systems that require advanced commercial ground networks to provide continuity when transitioning between sovereign and commercial networks. The Hughes Defense Team has delivered these types of intelligent and secure ground networking to the U.S. DoD for interoperability between military and commercial communications networks. Based on this collaboration with the U.S. military, Hughes can adapt the following trusted capabilities to suit our allies’ goals. 

• Hughes Network Management System (NMS) for Resiliency: Hughes is leveraging multi-transport networking and advanced AI and ML capabilities to redefine hybrid commercial-military SATCOM networking. The Hughes NMS provides enhanced interoperability between networks by leveraging standardized interfaces and automated PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) planning and collection of situational awareness information. With PACE plans, multi-orbit satellite terminals can autonomously roam across various satellite networks, make educated decisions based on what’s happening around them, and improve interoperability for stronger resiliency and security.
• Hughes Smart Network Edge: This intelligent software, typically installed in hybrid terminals, is a key enabler for orchestrating state-of-the-art resilient communications utilizing diverse transports, including GEO, MEO, LEO, and 5G systems. This cutting-edge software technology helps users maintain full control over network policies, traffic prioritization, and data to meet compliance mandates and preserve operational autonomy across departments and jurisdictions.
• Hughes Flat-Panel Electronically Steerable Antennas: This flat-panel antenna is the latest innovation available to Hughes customers and OneWeb distribution partners for high-performing, global, low-latency connectivity. The Hughes user terminals include a low-profile, flat-panel antenna with built-in modem. The devices are lightweight, low-power, weather-tight, and easy to install and maintain.
• Mobility: The Hughes HM System employs a commercially-based, open standards architecture and frequency band-agnostic platform that provides affordable, resilient solutions that meet a wide variety of mobility and portability requirements for military users. The HM System supports multi-megabit Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLoS) SATCOM solutions for airborne (including UAV and rotary wing aircraft), maritime, and land-mobile applications, such as ISR, Comms-on-the-Move and Comms-on-the-Pause.
• Advanced Technology: Hughes has pioneered the application of several groundbreaking technologies based on in-depth R&D and enhanced autonomy with AI/ML, adapting specialized waveforms (LPI/LPD and AJ) and modifying commercial systems to give users the most advanced technology to maintain superiority over adversaries.
• Hughes Managed Network Services: These end-to-end services are optimized to deliver resilient, latency-sensitive applications, and secure data transport.

Supported Use Cases:

• Multi-orbit and multi-transport resilient networking for manned and unmanned missions.
• The Hughes flat panel ESA using Eutelsat OneWeb LEO network for reliable connectivity during emergency response events.
• Agile deployment of state-of-the-art ground and management segments for sovereign space capability with GEO and LEO.

Hughes supplies the technology and communications expertise to support a variety of military communications requirements in the U.S. and around the globe. This includes secure multi-transport networks with LEO/MEO/GEO and 5G communications, aeronautical satellite communications expertise, long-standing SATCOM network integrator experience, and the global OneWeb LEO constellation gateway electronics, core module, and flat panel electronically steerable antenna (ESA), giving Hughes—and our customers—an advantage in engineering and integrating LEO solutions. 
Hughes can tailor our network management and connectivity services to meet your military needs. Contact us at Hughes.com to get started.