What project 643733 buys
PTW over Commercial (PTWoC) Initial Operational Capability (IOC) is targeted for when Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) operations are provided to users via a single Joint Hub over one commercial satellite, or International Partner (IP) satellite, including full Mission Management System (MMS) and Key Management System (KMS) support functions. PTWoC is expected to reach Full Operational Capability (FOC) after providing the ability to support geostationary, medium earth or highly inclined orbit PTW satellite communications from nine separate locations and for all equatorial longitudes. Highly inclined orbits are necessary in order to provide SATCOM coverage over the Earth's polar regions. Research, Development, Test & Evaluation funding is required for architecture development, acquisition strategy development, system requirements and system trades analysis, engineering, manufacturing, software development, and test and evaluation of PTES systems and segments. Initial PTWoC efforts are focused on providing additional, cost-effective SATCOM capacity to Joint and Allied warfighters via an international partnership with Luxembourg. Future efforts will focus on enabling Protected Tactical Waveform SATCOM operations over the O3b mPOWER Medium Earth Orbit constellation, as well as over commercial SATCOM constellations in other orbits. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF.
- Product Development
- Management Services
Project 643733 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 81.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 80.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 79.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 80.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 82.4 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue to develop requirements, acquisition strategy, and architecture for enabling PTW over commercial constellations. Award of a contract to enhance the systems developed in the PTW over WGS effort to enable PTW over commercial constellations. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to…
Read the FY2027 plan →Complete site preparation, surveys, installation, test and accreditation activities necessary to complete teleports within the mPOWER effort. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial and international…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 643733
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.