Operations Timeline for Tsat Planning

The purpose of the OPS timeline is to establish the war-fighter´s process to plan a TSAT mission and identify TMOS capabilities to support the warfighter´s mission plan. The timeline to plan TSAT missions will be significantly reduced from legacy communication systems and more importantly, the warfighter´s role in planning will be reduced allowing them more time for mission preparation and execution. The OPS timeline is also intended to help guide the efforts to further develop TSAT mission planning tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). This paper will define the differences in the mission planning time-frame and discuss how TSAT will support the need for high priority missions (real time planning) that must be planned and implemented very quickly. The three major planning phases, long term, short term, and real time will be described in context with the several milestones. The functional decomposition of those major milestones across the three phases of planning will help to define the processes that take place when planning a TSAT mission in the net-centric environment