Global Communications

Leonardo DRS delivers best value Ku, C, X, UHF, L and Ka-Band SATCOM services by teaming with the largest satellite operators and by combining operator agnostic services with economies of scale.

• Satellite Services Overview:
  • Lease/purchase bandwidth
  • Bandwidth licenses and approval
  • Subscription services
  • Capacity planning & management
  • Lease/purchase earth terminal
  • Terminal licenses and approval
  • Earth terminal operations & maintenance
  • Comms on the move (COTM)
  • Geo-spatial intelligence (GEOINT)
  • Host nation agreement (HNA)/negotiation support

• Satellite Services Highlights:
  • Leonardo DRS is a top supplier of satellite bandwidth to the U.S. Federal Government
  • Leonardo DRS teams up with the largest commercial satellite operators
  • Leonardo DRS delivers comprehensive Ku, C, X, UHF, L and Ka-Band SATCOM

Providing both standalone terrestrial transport and integrated back-haul for global networks, Leonardo DRS utilizes its core infrastructure, the Global Communications Network (GCN), to deliver secure and reliable telecommunication services anywhere, anytime.

• Terrestrial Services Overview:
  • Fiber and microwave back-haul
  • Rapid-deploy very small aperture terminal (VSAT) networks
  • Teleport services
  • Wireless (Campus WiFi/Forth Generation (4G))
  • Circuit design, procurement, testing, commission, optimization and maintenance

• Global Communications Network:
  • Carrier-grade, Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network
  • Redundant, self-healing fiber circuits
  • Globally dispersed Internet points of presence (PoPs)
  • Secure connections to customer networks
  • Diverse, redundant access to the entire commercial and Military satellite arc
  • U.S. Government Certified Authority to Operate (ATO) & Authority to Connect (ATC) Risk Management Framework (RMF) M-M-H

Leonardo DRS' custom end-to-end solutions include secure and reliable global networking, high-performance managed network applications, 24x7x365 network operations, full life-cycle support, and a dedicated team of globally deployed field service representatives (FSRs).

• Services Include:
  • Secure terrestrial/satellite networks for global data, voice, video and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
  • Globally deployed field service representatives (FSRs)
  • Systems engineering and integration
  • Program management
  • Life-cycle sustainment

• 24x7x365 Global Network Operations & Security Center (NOSC):
  • Monitoring and control of terrestrial core, teleports, satellite bandwidth, VSATs, back-haul, and security
  • Help desk with Tier I, II, & III support
  • Enterprise trouble ticket system
  • Geographically dispersed continuity of operations (COOP) fail-over

• Managed Network Applications:
  • Broadband Internet access
  • Bandwidth-on-demand
  • Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) prepaid calling platform
  • Video conferencing
  • Remote desktop
  • Virtual private networks (VPN) -Layer-2, Layer-3, and virtual private local area network service (VPLS)
  • Full motion video (FMV)
  • Offensive cyber - target centric intelligence gathering