scope:

This instruction provides policy for integrated DoD SATCOM management to ensure effective and efficient communications support to Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Services, and Agencies (CSA); International Partners (IP); and other authorized users. Specifically, it identifies the user connectivity requirements process for operational planning and access to current satellite systems as well as for planning future communications capabilities. It also articulates the categories and priorities of DoD SATCOM services and identifies operational processes and management responsibilities. This instruction also addresses Service and Agency responsibilities for certification (Conformance, Operational Performance, and Joint Interoperability) of SATCOM terminals and modems.

Purpose.

Current and future Department of Defense (DoD) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) underpin the secure, resilient, and agile data and communications transport required for global Joint Force command and control (C2) across all domains. This instruction provides high-level operational policy, direction, and procedures for the planning, management, employment, and use of operational DoD SATCOM resources. Specific objectives are to:

a. Maintain an integrated joint approach toward DoD SATCOM operational management, access, control, and planning of support to authorized users in current and future satellite systems.

b. Assign responsibilities for system-level operational management and positive control of DoD SATCOM resources.

c. Designate the SATCOM Database (SDB) as the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)-endorsed DoD repository for documenting all current and future military SATCOM (MILSATCOM) and commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) requirements of the DoD and its mission partners. The SDB is the SATCOM User Requirements Repository of current and future user requirements for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) (as defined in reference f). Current SDB capabilities and process will transfer to the follow-on program, SATCOM Operational Management Situational Awareness Tool (SOMSAT).

d. Assign the Joint SATCOM Panel (JSP) responsibility for reviewing and approving validated requirements to be entered into the SDB.

e. Provide a standing process for submitting DoD SATCOM user connectivity requirements to obtain access to current systems and shape future system planning.

f. Provide high-level direction for DoD SATCOM resource apportionment, allocation, arbitration, and adjudication.

g. Define the DoD SATCOM prioritization and precedence scheme that enables effective and efficient use of current resources and facilitates operational planning and employment.

h. Define processes for senior-level operational oversight of DoD SATCOM requirements management, resource allocation, policies, and service management.

i. Describe DoD SATCOM resource operational monitoring and control.

j. Provide guidance for the certification of SATCOM terminals and modems for conformance, operational performance, and joint interoperability.