Quad-Service Satellite Transmitting and Receiving System for Medical SupplySupport: A Battlefield Interoperability and Communications System Prototype, Volume 2. User Documentation

摘要

This report documents the design and development of a prototype informationcommunications system for quad-service use in a theater of operations. The prototype was designed to allow seamless integration of legacy information systems operated by each of the four services, and is based on a combination of software interfaces and commercial satellite communications hardware The QSTARS-MS prototype has been tested in a variety of garrison and deployment settings including extensive use in Somalia and the former Yugoslav republics The prototype demonstrates the feasibility of achieving joint interoperability through rapidly designed interfaces between legacy information systems The prototype also offers world-wide, portable, and affordable satellite communications capability through the use of the International Maritime Satellite network.