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North American Strategic Military Communications Markets
Frost & Sullivan, Aug 2005
Hacker Intrusions Highlight Need for Greater Security in North American Strategic Military Communications
There has been increased focus on communications security for North American military communications following the threats created by hackers repeatedly penetrating sensitive military installation networks. Comprehensive communications and information security programs have become vital. Every service and joint agency has hiked security budgets and has also begun to implement a variation of the information systems security program (ISSP). These efforts to secure communications are headed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA is also leading a Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agency-wide effort to upgrade communications security equipment for telephones and radios through the Cryptographic Modernization initiative. These upgrades and replacements are expected to cost more than $6.00 billion, creating strong revenue streams for the strategic military communications markets.
This Frost & Sullivan research service provides data and analysis on the North American strategic military communications market. It provides a comprehensive discussion of industry challenges as well as market drivers and restraints. The research enables companies to align their positioning strategies to benefit from the changing market and obtain maximum return on investment.
Greater Speed and Bandwidth for Military Communications Enables the Global Information Grid
Satellite-based communications is vital for enabling the Global Information Grid (GIG), a network-centric system that is expected to provide storage, management, and transport of information to aid military, national security, and related intelligence missions and functions. GIG capabilities will be extended from military bases to mobile platforms and warfighter deployments. GIG will interface with coalition and non-GIG systems and provide decision makers with information and decision superiority, says the analyst of this research service.
The typical satellite throughput for military applications has increased 12-fold since 1994. These satellite transmissions could also help information reach individual users in the billions-of-bits-per-second range rather than in the current megabits-per-second range. Satellites are the only communication capability that can provide the transmission speed, bandwidth, and mobile over the horizon capability that military forces require, notes the analyst. The U.S. DoD will depend on commercial satellite access even after all of the current programs being developed are in orbit.
Optimal Use of Internet Protocol and Web Formats to Facilitate Greater Flexibility in Data Usage
The Internet Protocol (IP)-based DISA Net-Centric Enterprise Service (NCES) stores all required data in Web format. The strategic (with tactical access) communications vision makes information available on the network itself and for easy access when needed. New equipment and services must be interoperable. Data from applications will reside on the network itself and this encourages the DoD to migrate from a system architecture to a service architecture to provide flexibility in data access. This system also enables cross-functional working across the network.
By 2008, the DoD plans to adopt the newer IP version 6 (IPv6) as the standard for all network services, observes the analyst. Since the United States is firmly established in IPv4, there will be tremendous opportunities for systems integrators to ease the transition to IPv6 and discover and repair vulnerabilities.
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